CCR Annual Report 2007 - Center for Constitutional Rights

Annual Report 2007
40th Anniversary

Our Mission
The Center for Constitutional Rights is dedicated to advancing and
protecting the rights guaranteed by the United States Constitution and
the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Founded in 1966 by
attorneys who represented civil rights movements in the South,
CCR is a non-profit legal and educational organization committed to
the creative use of law as a positive force for social change.

Table of Contents
Letter from the President 2
Letter from the Executive Director 3
40 Years on the Frontlines for Social Justice 4
Guantánamo Global Justice Initiative 8
Rendition & Ghost Detentions 12
Racial, Gender and Economic Justice 14
Corporate Human Rights Abuse 16
International Law and Accountability 18
Prison Justice 20
Attacks on Immigrants 22
Surveillance & Material Support 24
Attacks on Dissent 26
Internships and Fellowships 28
CCR in the News 30
Youth Outreach 31
40th Anniversary Celebration 32
Case Index 34
Friends & Allies 38
Guantánamo Habeas Counsel 41
Financial Report 45
Our Donors 46
Speaking Engagements 58
Board of Directors and Staff 59
In Memoriam 60
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Letter from the President
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are the times that try men’s [and women’s] souls.” Our democracy is in
peril. Rights that we thought were fundamental, the prohibition on torture, disappearances
and indefinite detention are considered dispensable. We are living in a
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plutocracy and under a government engaged in permanent war. There is no clear
way ahead and certainly no assurance that a more just society is within reach or will be achieved.
At times like this we must go back to our history and get strength from the struggles won and the
words of one of our founders, Ben Smith. When the Vietnam War was raging, destroying countless
lives and its ending appeared unachievable, he admonished us:
“Do not despair! Revitalizing the Fourteenth Amendment looked as distant in 1959 and
1960 as do the problems of the Vietnam peace movement today…. We shall prevail.”
Yes, we shall prevail, and change is emerging, although more slowly then we desire. Almost six years after the first incarcerations
at Guantánamo, we are again in front of the Supreme Court, and will hopefully restore the right of habeas corpus to
the detainees and to all of us. Torture by our government continues, but the military, although not the CIA, has renounced its
use. The unconscionable and illegal war in Iraq is our decade’s albatross; we will not be rid of it easily. The majority of the
American people understand its horror; but they need to enter actively into ending it. So, we are not without hope because we
understand that there is struggle.
Recently, someone who obviously did not understand the Center, snidely remarked to me that we “lucked” into representing
the Guantánamo detainees. Yes, I thought to myself, we lucked into those cases the same way we lucked into working
early on in the Southern civil rights struggles, or the Chicago 8 case, or the Supreme Court challenge to denial of Medicaid
for abortions, or in establishing that foreign torturers could be sued in the United States, or in closing down the Haitian HIV
camp at Guantánamo, or in holding unconstitutional warrantless wiretapping in the 70’s or in challenging almost every war
this country has engaged in.
Of course, luck or accident had absolutely nothing to do with CCR engaging in the struggles, political issues and passions
of its times. We have since our founding some 40 years ago demonstrated an unswerving commitment to progressive social
change and the protections of fundamental rights that protect the dignity of every person. We have a vision of what this
country and world should be; we are uncompromising and immovable in struggling for that vision. We understand the need
to take political, legal and personal risks in our work— we did so when we represented Guantánamo detainees shortly after
9/11. We did so in challenging the onerous prison telephone system and winning that struggle this year. We did do in representing
Maher Arar who had been rendered to Syria for torture. And we will do so again and again.
We understand that a better society is not and cannot be won only in the courts, particularly in the courts that have been
foisted on this county over the last twenty-five years. Social movements and struggles in the streets are necessary to create
a just society. The Center was born out of the belief that we could be partners with movements for social change. We still
adhere to that belief.
We thank all of you who recognize the important role CCR has played over the last 40 years and will continue to play in the
many struggles ahead.
Michael Ratner

must hear the voices and have the dreams of those who came
before us, and we must keep them with us in a very real sense.
This will keep us centered. This will help us to maintain our “We
understanding of the job we must do.” – Sonia Sanchez
The job we must do is clear one. The varied paths we will take to do that job are less so.
History has repeatedly taught us that the hard-won victories of yesterday can never be taken
for granted because the American memory is woefully short and right-wing ideology is
durable. Moreover, as our society and administrations change, new threats to our rights arise,
even as we defeat the old ones. Thus our “job” – CCR’s mission to advance and defend our
constitutional and human rights – is unending.
As we move into the future together, we must first start from where we are. We live in a
United States that once condemned torture, military disappearances, indefinite detention, and military trials. Now, the
United States vigorously fights us in the courts – and the courts of public opinion – to justify its use of those and many
other illegal practices. We live in a United States where the government: has consolidated unprecedented power in the
offices of the president and attorney general; refuses to protect its most vulnerable citizens from natural disasters and
man-made ones created by its own agents; outsources its human rights violations to corporations, religious groups, paramilitary
groups and even other countries; and continues to equate political activism and dissent with terrorism. This is
not the United States that we will tolerate. Our history and our future demand more from us.
True to our history and hearing the voices of those who have fought many of these same battles before us, CCR
and our brave allies will continue to fight in the courts, the streets and wherever and however the battle needs to be
waged until we can all say that our fundamental constitutional and human rights are being respected and afforded.
And we will continue that fight without fear, for as Bayard Rustin once said, “to be afraid is to behave as if the truth
were not true.”
CCR will continue working with and defending progressive movements for social change. We will continue our long
history of devising innovative strategies to undo the erosions of basic liberties and hold those who commit abuses
accountable for their actions. Whatever the political landscape may be in the near future, we have decades of work
ahead of us repairing the harm done to our people, our fundamental democratic systems, and our reputation as a nation
which strives to respect human rights and the Rule of Law.
We will continue to count on you to work with us as we move forward with our work and tackle the upcoming
challenges. Please take an opportunity to check out our re-vamped website to stay updated on the progress of our
cases and to become more involved in our important education and outreach initiatives.
Sincerely,
Vincent Warren
Letter from the Executive Director
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40 Years on the Frontlines
for Social Justice
Since 1966 the Center for
Constitutional Rights has used
the law to defend and advance the
rights guaranteed by the United
States Constitution and the Universal
Declaration of Human Rights. Our work
began on behalf of civil rights activists,
and over the last four decades CCR has
lent its expertise and support to virtually
every popular movement for social justice.
At the bottom of this page begins a
timeline describing some of the major
cases that CCR has worked on over our
40-year history. As you look through
the decades, you will see an unwavering
commitment to progressive principles,
people’s movements and human rights.
In many of these cases, CCR worked
tenaciously for decades before success was
achieved.
Founded out of the Southern civil rights
struggle, CCR was formed in order to
practice law while working hand in
1965
Mississippi Challenge
Challenged the seating of members of Congress
who had won in racially discriminatory elections.
Helped convince Congress to pass the Voting
Rights Act.
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hand with social justice movements. The
Center’s first major case, Dombrowski v.
Pfister (1965) successfully sued the Chair
of the Louisiana Un-American Activities
Committee, Representative Pfister, to
invalidate the state anti-subversion laws
that were being used in an attempt to
intimidate civil rights organizer Jim
Dombrowski, CCR founder Ben Smith and
his law partner Bruce Waltzer.
The Supreme Court victory in that case
created an important new legal tool:
the use of federal courts to invalidate
unconstitutional state acts. CCR founders
Arthur Kinoy, Ben Smith, Bill Kunstler
and Morton Stavis developed pioneering
legal strategies and used them to help
strengthen the work of the civil rights
movement.
Racial Justice
One important early struggle was the
challenge to the seats of five Mississippi
Congressmen by the Mississippi Freedom
Democratic Party (MFDP). (Mississippi
1965
Dombrowski v. Pfister
Won Supreme Court decision recognizing federal
jurisdiction to stop states from using criminal law
to intimidate civil rights workers. Established that
such intimidation had a “chilling effect” on First
Amendment rights and was unconstitutional.
Challenge, 1965) At the request of MFDP,
CCR founders initiated federal litigation
challenging Mississippi’s discriminatory
voter registration practices, resulting in
the Court of Appeals setting the election
aside and scheduling a new one. (Hamer
v. Campbell, 1966) The victory in this
case helped convince Congress to pass the
Voting Rights Act.
CCR continued its deep commitment to
addressing the legacy of slavery in the
United States. In the late 1970’s, when
the Ku Klux Klan began to rise up again,
CCR worked with activists around the
country and organized a national Anti-Klan
Network. Our 1982 victory in Crumsey v.
Justice Knights of the Ku Klux Klan was
the first time that the Ku Klux Klan Act of
1871 was utilized to obtain damages for
Klan victims. The case won over $500,000
in damages and secured a sweeping
injunction against the KKK and associated
individuals, prohibiting their campaign of
assault, intimidation and harassment.
CCR founder Morton Stavis at a Freedom
Democratic Party Meeting in Alabama, 1966 James Dombrowski CCR founder Ben Smith
CCR Case timeline listed by decision date
1967
Dombrowski v. Eastland
Held members of Congress and
their counsel responsible for
violations of civil rights.

Continuing in its tradition of Southern
civil rights work, CCR opened an office
in Greenville, Mississippi in 1984. CCR
South worked closely with activists to
fight school segregation, workplace
discrimination and a racist criminal justice
system through litigation, education and
organizing work.
Women’s Rights
CCR filed its first major women’s rights
case in l969, when women’s rights litigation
was still largely uncharted territory.
That case, Abramowicz v. Lefkowitz
(1972), was the first challenge to New
York’s criminal abortion law that focused
on women’s rights as opposed to doctors’
rights. It became the model for similar
cases that invalidated abortion laws in
other states, several of which were cited in
Roe v. Wade when the Court decided that
laws restricting the right to abortion are
unconstitutional. These ground-breaking
feminist theories were also cited in CCR’s
amicus brief in Roe v. Wade. In 1988 our
victory in NOW v. Terry created a precedent
for establishing buffer zones around
abortion clinics to protect women seeking
medical services from being harassed by
members of “Operation Rescue.”
In 1975 CCR won the first ever appeal
of a murder conviction based on what is
now called “women’s self-defense law”.
State of Washington v. Wanrow (1977)
recognized the degree to which criminal
law was shaped by male experience,
ruling that the jury should consider the
defendant’s personal experience, including
a history of sex discrimination and abuse.
1966
Hamer v. Campbell
Represented Fannie Lou Hamer in a lawsuit to
overturn elections based on discriminatory voter
registration practices.
CCR’s challenge to the constitutionality
of New York City’s forced maternity leave
policies for teachers, which effectively
penalized women for bearing children,
resulted in the landmark 1978 Supreme
Court decision in Monell v. Department
of Social Services, which created the right
to sue municipalities for damages in civil
rights cases.
International Law
& Accountability
CCR has several major victories that have
defined the scope of international law
across the world. Filártiga v. Peña Irala
(1980) was the breakthrough that led to the
development of “universal jurisdiction”:
the idea that some acts are so heinous
that they travel with you anywhere in the
world. CCR has extended this concept
to create liability for human rights violations
committed by corporations or other
non-government entities, no matter where
the violations occur. (See page 17 for a
description of our Alien Tort Statue cases).
The Center has also integrated its
commitment to advancing women’s
rights to international law, working
vigilantly for over a decade towards
the establishment of women’s rights as
human rights, and specifically to highlight
rape and other forms of sexual violence
as war crimes, crimes against humanity
and genocide. The Center’s case Doe v.
Karadzic (2000), in addition to establishing
in a U.S. court that non-state actors can
be liable for human rights violations and
war crimes, also was the first time a U.S.
court defined rape as a form of torture.
1968
Hobson v. Hansen
Led one of the first challenges to de facto school
segregation. Resulted in a landmark decision
holding the State responsible for affirmative duty
to take corrective action ensuring equality in
schools.
Fannie Lou Hamer
Doe v. Unocal (2004) was the first time
a multinational corporation was charged
with complicity in rape as torture.
Attacks on Immigrants
To fight discrimination against political
refugees and to support the Sanctuary
movement of the 1980’s, ABC v. Thornberg
(1991) challenged the denial of
asylum applications despite evidence
of government sponsored persecutions
and human rights violations, where the
denials were based on U.S. support for
the repressive regimes of the immigrants’
home countries.
In 1987 CCR defended two activists
who were in deportation proceedings for
exercising their First Amendment rights
by organizing on behalf of a Palestinian
group. After over twenty years of work,
deportation proceedings were finally
ended this year. (See page 23) This case
is only one example of CCR’s long-term
commitment to these issues and to our
clients.
1969
DuVernay v. United States
Challenged discrimination
in the racial composition
of draft boards.
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40 Years on the Frontlines for Social Justice (continued)
Attacks on Dissent
Beginning with the historic 1965 march
from Selma to Montgomery (Wright v.
Montgomery, 1975), CCR attorneys have
worked tirelessly to defend activists
and organize legal support for political
movements. Over the years, CCR has
represented anti-war protestors (National
Student Association v. Hershey, 1969;
Soglin v. Kaufman, 1969; Jeanette
Rankin Brigade v. Capitol Police, 1972),
members of the Chicago 8 (U.S. v.
Dellinger, 1972) and members of the
American Indian Movement after a
stand-off with the FBI at Wounded
Knee (U.S. v. Banks and Means, 1974).
In these cases and others, CCR employed
innovative legal tactics that have served
as the foundation for defense strategies
in subsequent prosecutions of activists
and protestors.
1969
National Student Association v. Hershey
Protected First Amendment rights of anti-war
protesters and successfully challenged, in the
D.C. Circuit Court, the punitive induction of
anti-war students into the armed services.
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From its beginning, CCR has also been
involved in challenges to the targeting of
political activists. In 1969, we obtained
a ruling allowing a witness subpoenaed
by the House Un-American Activities
Committee (HUAC) to challenge the
constitutionality of the subpoena (Stamler
v. Willis, 1970). Later, our grand jury cases
defended against the use of the grand jury
process to persecute those speaking out
against government policies and protected
the confidentiality of attorney-client
conversations. (In re: Kinoy and In re:
Rodberg, 1971) CCR’s innovative work
in this area developed techniques that are
still used to combat grand jury abuse.
Illegal Government
Surveillance
CCR has a long history of fighting
illegal domestic surveillance of unpopular
groups. In U.S. v. U.S. District Court the
Three of the clients in Crumsey on the day they filed their lawsuit
1969
Powell v. McCormack
Fought in the Supreme Court to preserve
voters’ choice of Adam Clayton Powell Jr. as
their representative in Congress. Prevented
Speaker of the House McCormack from unseating
Rep. Powell.
government wanted to bypass the courts
to wiretap domestic activists in the name
of national security. In 1972 CCR won
this unanimous Supreme Court decision
invalidating such wiretapping and declaring
that domestic electronic surveillance
without a warrant is unconstitutional. This
decision rejected the government’s attempt
to legitimize its use of the power of the executive
branch to invade people’s privacy
and monitor their political activity.
Again in 1979, CCR successfully sued the
FBI for illegal surveillance and break-ins.
(Clavir v. U.S.) Building directly upon the
work of our Movement Support Network
campaigns and Freedom of Information
Act requests, CISPES v. FBI (1985)
exposed massive spying on activists in
the El Salvador solidarity movement. In
1986, Kinoy v. Mitchell uncovered over
400 volumes of more than 200 instances
of wiretapping, many involving Arthur
Kinoy’s and CCR’s representation of
“controversial” causes.
CCR founder Bill Kunstler (right) with
his client, Judge Bruce Wright
1969
Soglin v. Kaufman
Protected university students from
expulsion for their lawful participation
in anti-war activities.

The Center is again fighting this type of
over-reaching by the executive branch with
our case: CCR v. Bush. See page 24 for a
description of this case and our ongoing
work to end warrantless surveillance and
the targeting of organizations based on
political affiliation.
Executive Detentions
In November 2001, President Bush issued
“Military Order Number One” claiming
that he could capture, arrest or kidnap and
then hold forever, without trial and without
the right to challenge their detention in
court, any non-citizen that he declared was
a “terrorist.” CCR immediately understood
the threat to our democracy that such
claims of unfettered executive power represent.
We understood in part because of
our long history of taking on these issues
and sticking with the cases and our clients,
even when doing so is unpopular.
The habeas petition that led to CCR’s
2004 Supreme Court decision in Rasul v.
CCR founder Arthur Kinoy being
removed from a HUAC hearing by
federal marshalls, 1966
1970
Stamler v. Willis
Challenged the constitutionality of the
House Un-American Activities Committee.
Obtained a ruling in federal
court that allowed those served with
subpoenas from HUAC to challenge
them on constitutional grounds.
Bush was filed within weeks of the first
detainees arriving at Guantánamo Bay
Naval Station in Cuba. This important
precedent, that opened the door to U.S.
courts for the detainees, was possible
because CCR was able to recognize the
Bush administration’s actions for what they
were, and was unafraid to step up to the
challenge in defense of the fundamental
principle of fairness and against secrecy.
Looking Forward–
Repairing the Damage
Since our founding, we have provided legal
skills in a unique and effective manner
and always with a progressive perspective.
CCR is often “ahead of the curve” both
in identifying problems and in suggesting
novel or radical legal responses. We
use daring and innovative legal strategies
which have produced many important
precedents that have become an estab-
Selma to Montgomery march across the
Edmond Pettus bridge, Alabama 1965
1971
Grand Jury Cases
Defended the rights of witnesses against
grand jury abuse; protected the confidentiality
of attorney-client conversations (In re:
Kinoy) and defended congressional aide from
being jailed for contempt in the “Pentagon
Papers Grand Jury” case (In re: Rodberg).
lished part of our law and legal culture,
and we broaden the impact of our litigation
through creative and effective education
and advocacy work. Our stunning victories
in many of these cases demonstrate the true
value of the Center.
The descriptions of our work over the
past year that are contained in this report
demonstrate the tremendous impact of
combining the unique political perspective
and historical understanding of the Center,
with the courage and tenacity to take up
the most difficult challenges and to keep
up the struggle over the long haul. That is
exactly the formula we will need in order
to face the challenges ahead and begin the
work of repairing the damage done to our
legal system over the past ten years. n
1971
Wright v. Montgomery
CCR attorneys defended numerous
participants and organized legal support
for marchers who were arrested and harassed
in connection with the historic Selma-to-
Montgomery March in 1965.
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1971
Palmer v. Thompson
Fought racial segregation in public swimming pools.
Argued that the State should act affirmatively to end
racial discrimination; lost in the Supreme Court. Public
swimming pools were allowed to close rather than
integrate.
1972
Jeanette Rankin Brigade v. Capitol Police
Protected anti-war demonstrators’ right to demonstrate on
Capitol Hill and struck down a statute that prohibited demonstrating,
walking, or standing in groups on Capitol grounds.

Guantánamo Global Justice Initiative
Over five years ago, on January 11, 2002, the first
prisoners were brought from Afghanistan to
Guantánamo Bay Naval Station in Cuba. They
were quickly labeled as terrorists and the “worst of
the worst,” with no access to the courts to determine their legal
rights. One month after these first twenty men arrived, the Center
for Constitutional Rights filed the first case on behalf of detainees
at Guantánamo, seeking a habeas corpus hearing in which the
legitimacy of their detention would be reviewed by an impartial
federal judge.
Since that time, we have learned that the vast majority of these
men are innocent of any crimes against the United States and have
been brutally tortured and abused, both physically and psychologically.
We have seen Guantánamo become an international
symbol of lawlessness and U.S. arrogance abroad, condemned
by international human rights organizations, the United Nations
and leaders of countries including Germany and England. And
yet Guantánamo is still open and housing, at last count, approximately
340 detainees.
CCR continues to train and coordinate the efforts of over 500
pro bono attorneys who represent Guantánamo detainees. We
are deeply committed to ensuring that the detainees are either
charged and given fair trials or released; that safe countries are
found for those slated for release to countries where they are
likely to face torture and continued detention; and that the prison
camp be shut down.
In the Courts
Three years after our historic Supreme Court victory in Rasul v.
Bush and just months after Hamdan v. Rumsfeld, each of which
affirmed the detainees’ right of access to the federal courts, President
Bush signed into law the Military Commissions Act of 2006
(MCA). The MCA, among other provisions, attempts to strip
detainees of their right to habeas corpus; drastically broadens the
definition of “enemy combatant”; and allows the use of evidence
obtained under torture and coercion in some instances. The Act
has had the effect of stalling all pending detainee habeas cases,
1972
Abramowicz v. Lefkowitz
Challenged New York State law that restricted abortion; served as
a model for lawsuits throughout the country challenging restrictive
abortion laws. Ultimately, New York’s law was changed through
legislation while statutes in Rhode Island, Connecticut, New Jersey
and other states were directly struck down through litigation.
with judges ruling that until the question of how the MCA applies
is addressed, these cases cannot move forward.
Two cases became the first to challenge the constitutionality
of the MCA. Al Odah v. United States, filed jointly by CCR
and co-counsel law firms, consists of eleven habeas petitions
including many of the first ones filed after the Supreme Court’s
Rasul decision. Boumediene v. Bush was filed on behalf of six
Bosnian-Algerian humanitarian workers seized by the U.S.
military in Sarajevo and transferred to Guantánamo.
In April, the Supreme Court declined to review these cases.
However, in a highly unusual move, the Court reversed itself and
announced in June that it would in fact hear them in the coming
court term. CCR will be before the Supreme Court for the second
time on behalf of the detainees.
In Congress
CCR was engaged in extensive legislative efforts to prevent
the MCA’s passage and is currently working to repeal the worst
aspects of it, and to reinstate habeas corpus for the detainees.
Aided by growing disenchantment with the Administration,
members of Congress on both sides of the aisle introduced
several pieces of legislation this year that would have given
detainees meaningful access to the courts. CCR worked with
other organizations to push for the passage of the Habeas Corpus
Restoration Act and the more comprehensive Restoring the
Constitution Act. We continue our legislative advocacy and
are hopeful that, coupled with our legal work, we will bring
about the twin goals of safely closing Guantánamo and ensuring
that everyone detained there has their day in court.
Detainee Transfers
In October 2006, we filed a habeas petition on behalf of Majid
Khan, one of the “ghost detainees” held in secret CIA detention,
who President Bush had transferred to Guantánamo in September
2006. Majid is a U.S. resident who was granted asylum here and
attended high school in Baltimore, Maryland. He was kidnapped
along with his brother, his brother’s wife and their infant child,
1972
U.S. v. U.S. District Court
Won a unanimous U.S.
Supreme Court decision invalidating
warrantless “national
security” wiretapping against
domestic activists.
1972
United States v. Dellinger
Defended charges against
the “Chicago 8” and won
reversal of the conviction on
appeal.
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1972
U.S. ex rel. Goodman v. Kehl
Protected WBAI against a
subpoena for tapes based on
reporter’s privilege and due
process.
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1973
In re: WBAI v. FM
Defended WBAI against
grand jury subpoena for
a note received from the
Weather Underground.
1973
Hess v. Schlesinger
Defended women’s autonomy
within marriage. Struck down a
Marine Corps rule which in effect
treated women merely as extensions
of their husbands.
Demonstration outside the Supreme Court on
January 11, 2007 marking the fifth anniversary of the
arrival of the first detainees at Guantánamo Bay
1974
Aikens v. Abel
Represented steelworkers against
their union leadership and management
when an “Experimental
Negotiating Agreement” was signed,
that prohibited the rank-and-file from
striking.

Guantánamo Global Justice Initiative
from their residence during a visit to Pakistan in March 2003. His
relatives were eventually released, but Majid was not heard from
again for more than three years until a news reporter knocked on
his family’s door in Baltimore and told them President Bush had
announced in a nationally-televised speech that Majid was one
of 14 “high-value” detainees who had been transferred to
Guantánamo.
The government claims that the secret detention program and
the “enhanced interrogation techniques” used on Majid are top
secret and are using this as the basis to deny CCR attorneys access
to him. As CCR attorneys fought with the government to gain
access to Majid, his interrogations continued. In May 2007, the
U.S. government released his Combatant Status Review Tribunal
(CSRT) transcript. The transcript was a revelation – it showed that
no reliable evidence was presented against him during his CSRT
hearing and that government-produced witnesses refuted all the
claims that Majid had links to terrorism. All of Majid’s statements
describing his torture while held in CIA secret prisons and at
Guantánamo were completely redacted. We continue to press the
U.S. government to give us access to Majid.
CCR also fought the government’s attempts to send our client
Abdul Ra’ouf al Qassim to Libya, where he feared facing torture.
Every court up to and including the Supreme Court denied our
attempts to block the transfer, but the ensuing publicity convinced
the government to remove him from the list of detainees
scheduled for transfer, and CCR is working through a variety of
channels to have him sent to a safe third country where his wife
and child live.
On the Base
Conditions at Guantánamo have evolved from medieval-style
brutality to subtle but more insidious forms of psychological
torment. While the previous years have been marked by shocking
stories of brutal torture – severe beatings, sexual humiliation,
and short-shackling – the abuse is now directed at the mind rather
than the body. A large number of detainees are now held in Camps
5 and 6, two maximum-security solitary confinement prisons
1974
Kentucky Bar Association v. Taylor; Taylor v. Hayes
Protected the independence of the Bar. Defended Louisville
attorney Dan Taylor, who was held in contempt during a
criminal trial, denied a lawyer and a hearing, not told the
charges against him and thrown in jail without bail.
explicitly modeled after domestic Supermax prisons of the sort
CCR challenged in Wilkinson v. Austin (2004). Detainees first
began to be moved to Camp 6 in December 2006; shortly afterwards,
CCR attorneys who visited Guantánamo began reporting
rapid physical and psychological deterioration of our clients due
to their protracted isolation from human contact.
Prolonged solitary confinement is an extreme form of abuse
that has been condemned by many international bodies. Detainees
in Camps 5 and 6 are alone in their cells for at least 22 hours of
each day, have no social contact with other inmates and little
communication with the outside world or even with prison staff.
The psychological torture of isolation, while less likely to scandalize
the public than Abu Ghraib-style physical and sexual abuse,
leaves longer-lasting scars and is harder to cure, and bringing it
to the attention of the public and the courts is a major goal for the
coming months.
Fifth Anniversary
January 11, 2007 was the fifth anniversary of Guantánamo’s use
as an off-shore prison. CCR marked this sad date by coordinating,
along with numerous other organizations, an international day of
protests that called for the safe closure of the prison camp and access
to courts for the detainees. Throughout the year, we planned
events, provided speakers, traveled to Cuba with activist groups
such as Code Pink, sent out numerous action alerts and organized
“Restore Habeas Corpus Day,” with the goal of increasing public
pressure on the U.S. government to finally close Guantánamo and
end this administration’s extrajudicial detention program. Our anniversary
report, Justice Delayed is Justice Denied: Guantánamo
Bay Five Years Later, is available on our website.
CCR continues to be at the forefront of the battle for justice for
Guantánamo detainees. With the support of our allies and donors,
we will continue to work on many fronts until we achieve our
goals of ensuring that detainees have their day in court, that those
who are released are repatriated safely, and ultimately closing
Guantánamo Bay and ending the use of off-shore prisons outside
of the reach of the law. n
1974
U.S. v. Banks and Means
Defended American Indian sovereignty at Wounded Knee; represented leaders
in the American Indian Movement charged with conspiracy and assault in
a standoff with the FBI. All charges were dropped against defendants while
the trial revealed massive illegal spying by the government, suppression of
evidence and illegal use of material supplied by the Pentagon.
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1975
Douglas v. Holloman
Banned forced sterilization and drafted guidelines
to ensure that women had adequate and
full information, in comprehensible language,
about the effects of sterilization.
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1975
Drinan v. Ford
Attempted to halt U.S. attacks on Cambodia
through a challenge to presidential assertion of
unilateral right to expand the war in Southeast
Asia without congressional authorization.
CCR client Maher Arar and
his wife Monia Mazigh
1975
In re: Union Nacional de
Trabajadores
Defended UNT’s right to a legally
constituted trial by jury.

Extraordinary Rendition
CCR was the first organization to challenge an
“extraordinary rendition,” in which terror suspects are
secretly transferred from U.S. custody to the custody
of notorious human rights-abusing regimes in order
to have those countries do what the law forbids – torture the
suspects to extract information. In 2004, we filed a case on behalf
of Canadian citizen Maher Arar against then-Attorney General
John Ashcroft and other U.S. officials. Mr. Arar was detained at
John F. Kennedy Airport in September 2002 and falsely labeled
a member of al Qaeda. After nearly two weeks of intensive interrogation,
he was sent to Syria where he was kept underground in a
dark 3 x 6 x 7 foot cell for over ten months and beaten with electric
cables. He was released and returned to Canada a year later.
This past year has seen an incredible wave of public sentiment in
Mr. Arar’s favor. In September 2006, the Canadian Commission
of Inquiry, established by the Canadian government to investigate
what happened to Mr. Arar, released a report that exonerated
him and showed that the information Canada passed to the U.S.
before he was detained was inaccurate and inflammatory. In January
2007, Canada formally apologized for its role in Mr. Arar’s
treatment and awarded him a settlement of approximately $10
million. In May 2007, Time Magazine recognized Maher Arar as
one of its Time 100, a “list of 100 men and women whose power,
talent, or moral example is transforming our world.”
In December 2006, CCR appealed the dismissal of our case,
Arar v. Ashcroft, which was dismissed on national security and
foreign policy grounds. Briefing in the Second Circuit was completed
in April 2007, and Mr. Arar awaits his case being heard.
CIA Ghost Detentions
As more details come to light about the CIA secret prisons and
black sites that were, and likely continue to be, used to house
prisoners in the so-called “war on terror,” CCR continues to
Rendition & Ghost Detentions
1975
Joanne Little Case
Assisted in the defense of Joanne Little, a prisoner who had killed
her white jailer after he had tried to rape her, by documenting
overwhelming racial prejudice on the part of the jury in her case.
Ultimately, Little was acquitted.
vigorously challenge those unlawful detentions and press the
government for full disclosure.
In June 2007, CCR and five other leading human rights organizations
released a report that published the names and details of 39
people who are believed to have been held in secret U.S. custody
and whose current whereabouts remain unknown. The report,
Off the Record: U.S. Responsibility for Enforced Disappearance
in the “War on Terror,” includes people from African, Middle
Eastern, and European countries and highlights aspects of the
CIA detention program that the U.S. government has actively
tried to conceal, such as the locations of secret prisons, the
mistreatment detainees endured, and the countries to which they
may have been transferred. It constitutes the most comprehensive
list of people who may still be detained in U.S. secret prisons.
At the same time, CCR, along with Amnesty International and the
International Human Rights Clinic of NYU Law School, filed a
Freedom of Information Act lawsuit seeking information about
“disappeared” detainees, including ghost detainees and unregistered
prisoners. Our 2004 lawsuit, ACLU, CCR, et al. v. DOD et
al., seeks records concerning the abuse of detainees in American
detention centers and charges the Department of Defense and
other agencies with illegally withholding records.
Some of our clients currently detained at Guantánamo were
victims of ghost detention and rendition prior to arriving at
the base. A recent Executive Order was established as authorization
for the program to continue after what was described as a
temporary hiatus in response to the Supreme Court’s decision
in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld, which held in part that detainees held
in U.S. custody anywhere in the world could not be subjected to
cruel and inhumane treatment.
There is no way to know how widespread these practices
currently are, but CCR is committed to shining a light on
these clandestine abuses and ending the govern ment’s practice
of secret detentions wherever it occurs. n
1975
State of New York v. Danny White
Fought New York State’s attempts to evict Mohawk
Indians from their land and challenged the jurisdiction
of U.S. courts over American Indian land claims.
Resulted in a settlement with the State.
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1976
Andrews v. Drew Municipal
School District (amicus)
Protected the right of unwed
mothers to teach in schools.
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1976
NLRB v. Union Nacional de Trabajadores
Defended independentista union from
NLRB enforcement orders.
CCR Executive Director Vincent Warren with our
FDNY clients, members of the Vulcan Society
1977
State of Washington v. Wanrow
Representing Yvonne Wanrow, CCR won the first
ever appeal of a murder conviction on the grounds
of a woman’s right to self-defense against harm to
self or child.

Racial, Gender and Economic Justice
CCR was born out of the civil rights movement of the
1960’s and remains dedicated to fighting racism in all
its forms. Since our founding, we have broadened our
work to include gender rights and economic justice as
well as continuing the struggle for racial justice.
Our new Government Misconduct attorney, Andrea Costello, has
brought with her an exciting case representing several feminist
activists from the “Morning-After Pill Conspiracy.” Tummino, et
al. v. Von Eschenbach challenges the Federal Drug Administration’s
failure to approve the Morning-After Pill (also known as
“emergency contraception” or “Plan B”) as an over-the-counter
medication for women of all ages. This case is part of the MAP
Conspiracy organizing campaign, which is exposing how the
FDA’s decision-making process was prejudiced by anti-birth
control sentiments within the government. Motions for summary
judgment from both sides are pending.
We continue to work with a teachers group – Committee for a
Fair Licensing Procedure – to win a class action lawsuit on behalf
of public school teachers of color who have challenged the use
of discriminatory tests that have deprived them of equal salaries,
pensions, benefits and seniority while still keeping them in
the classroom. The Center argues that the Board of Education’s
reliance on the National Teachers Examination to terminate the
licenses of experienced teachers is discriminatory because the
test has an adverse disparate impact on people of color, especially
Black and Latino teachers. In August 2006, the Second Circuit
Court of Appeals agreed with CCR and sent the case, Gulino v.
Board of Education, back to the lower court to be reconsidered.
Another key CCR case also focuses on discriminatory testing:
Vulcan Society v. City of New York. For years we have partnered
with the Vulcan Society, the organization of Black firefighters in
New York City, to challenge racial discrimination in recruitment
and the entrance exam that determines who will be hired. New
York has the least racially diverse fire department of any major
city in the United States—2.9 percent black in a city that is 27
percent Black. CCR filed two Equal Employment Opportunity
Commission (EEOC) charges that resulted in rulings that the test
1977
Horman v. Kissinger
Exposed U.S. involvement in a coup by the Chilean junta in a
lawsuit against U.S. officials present during the overthrow of
Salvador Allende’s government in 1973; asserted their involvement
in the disappearance, torture and murder of Charles
Horman, who observed U.S. naval support for the coup.
was discriminatory. After the FDNY ignored repeated invitations
to negotiate a solution, the U.S. Department of Justice reviewed
the matter and decided to file a lawsuit against the city in May
2007, charging that the test weeds out Black and Latino applicants
and has no relationship to job skills. CCR has now formally
intervened in the DOJ suit and will continue our efforts to put an
end to the racial disparities within the FDNY and create equal access
to employment for more people of color in New York City.
There was also significant movement in our landmark case
Daniels v. City of New York that challenged the racial profiling
practices of the New York City Police Department and led to the
shuttering of the Street Crimes Unit. The SCU was a commando
unit of over 300 police officers that patrolled the streets at night
in unmarked cars and in plain clothes. It was four SCU officers
who killed Amadou Diallo by firing 41 bullets at him as he was
standing in the vestibule of his apartment building in 1999.
Shortly after this horrific shooting, NYPD statistics revealed that
the SCU routinely invades the privacy of tens of thousands of city
residents, especially young men of color.
The SCU was disbanded following a settlement in December
2003 and CCR has continued to monitor compliance and engage
in enforcement of the agreement, which includes safeguards
against unlawful racial profiling. However, the recent dramatic
increase in stop-and-frisks shows that the NYPD is once again in
violation of the new policy. We will continue our efforts to end
racial profiling by the NYPD. n
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30 Years of Monell
In the 30 years since CCR won this landmark case,
Monell claims have become a powerful tool for holding
municipalities responsible for civil rights violations. Initiated
as a women’s rights case, these claims are now most
often used to challenge patterns of police misconduct,
such as CCR’s Street Crimes Unit case described above.
Monell is an example of how CCR’s pioneering efforts to
apply creative legal strategies to the struggle for social and
economic justice opens doors and carves out whole new
avenues for progressive lawyers and community activists to
pursue into the future.
1978
Monell v. Department of Social Services
Originating as a successful challenge to forced
maternity leave policies, this case forced local
government accountability for unconstitutional acts
for the first time and created the right to obtain
damages from municipalities in such cases.
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Some of the most exciting and innovative litigation in
CCR’s docket are our cases that challenge human rights
abuses committed by multinational corporations. With
issues that range from the horrifying torture and abuse
at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq, to illegal home demolitions in the
Palestinian Territories, to the murder of activists in Nigeria, these
cases seek to bring accountability for human rights violations into
the board rooms of major corporations.
In 1996, CCR filed a lawsuit against Royal Dutch Shell for its
role in environmental degradation and human rights violations in
the Ogoni region of Nigeria. At the center of the case is the 1995
executions of the Ogoni 9, peaceful activists led by Ken Saro-
Wiwa. CCR contends that the oil company colluded with
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1979
Clavir v. U.S.
Filed suit on behalf of political activists
against the FBI for illegal surveillance and
surreptitious break-ins of their home.
Nigeria's military government to bring about the arrest and
execution of the Ogoni 9 by giving money and weapons to the
Nigerian government to crush the protest movement and by
bribing witnesses to give false testimony. CCR fought off
multiple motions to dismiss and the case has now progressed to
discovery. CCR filed amicus briefs in the appeal on a related case
pending before the Second Circuit Court of Appeals on the issues
of substantive norms as well as secondary liability.
In a related case, CCR is working with a team of human rights
organizations and public interest law firms on Bowoto v. Chevron,
an ATS case charging Chevron with involvement in three attacks
on unarmed environmental protesters and people in their homes
in Nigeria in 1998 and 1999. Important rulings in August 2007 on
1979
Bruno v. Codd
Compelled the NYPD to respond
to domestic violence.
1979
U.S. v. Berkan
Won criminal case on behalf of Judy
Berkan, lawyer for protestors of the U.S.
Navy bombing of Vieques, Puerto Rico.

1980
Local 1330, U.S. Steelworkers of
America v. U.S. Steel (amicus)
Fought to keep steel plants open in
Youngstown, Ohio.
Corporate Human Rights Abuse
Chevron’s summary judgment motions allowed the case to move
forward to trial.
In June 2004, just weeks after the photographs of abuse and
sexual humiliation at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq were made
public, CCR filed a lawsuit against Titan Corporation and CACI
International, charging both with torture and other human rights
abuses. CACI and Titan are publicly traded corporations that
provide interrogation and translation services to U.S. government
agencies. The suit charges that employees of these companies
directed or participated in illegal interrogation tactics, including:
forced nakedness; hooding; being forced to watch family members
be tortured to death; severe beatings with chains, boots, and
other objects; and rape.
Motions filed by the corporations for summary judgment, and
CCR’s response, are pending before the court.
In 2005, CCR filed suit against Caterpillar, Inc., alleging that it
sold D9 bulldozers to the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) knowing
that they would be used to unlawfully demolish homes and
endanger civilians. CCR represents four Palestinian families
whose family members were killed or injured when the
bulldozers were used to demolish their homes while they were
inside, and the parents of American activist Rachel Corrie,
who was killed by a D9 bulldozer while protecting a Palestinian
family’s home from demolition. In July 2007, CCR argued Corrie
v. Caterpillar before the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.
CCR also continues to support the work of other organizations
and individuals who are fighting corporate human rights abuses.
For almost 40 years, Vietnamese civilians and U.S. veterans
have suffered from the severe health effects of being sprayed
with Agent Orange and from it remaining in the soil and natural
environment of Vietnam. In June 2007, a lawsuit initiated by the
Vietnam Association for Victims of Agent Orange/Dioxin was
argued before the U.S. Second Circuit Court of Appeals. CCR
filed an amicus brief in the case when it was before the District
Court, helped organize a Day of Action around the
country and coordinated protest activities outside the court
room on oral argument day. n
Alien Tort Statute
It has been over 25 years since CCR pioneered the use of
the Alien Tort Statute (ATS) to allow foreign victims of human
rights abuses to seek remedies in U.S. courts. Since our
groundbreaking victory in Filártiga, CCR has successfully
expanded the application of the ATS, also known as the
Alien Tort Claims Act (ATCA), to cases involving human rights
violations by multinational corporations.
In 1994 CCR filed Doe v. Karadzic against Bosnian Serb
leader Radovan Karadzic. A 1995 decision in that case laid
the groundwork for ATS cases against non-state actors, by
establishing for the first time that individuals not working
for any government can be liable under human rights law.
The case concluded in 2000 with an historic $4.5 billion
judgment against Karadzic for genocide, war crimes and
crimes against humanity.
In 1996 we brought an ATS case against the Unocal oil
corporation, alleging that it was aware of and supported
slave labor, murder, rape and forced displacement of
thousands of villagers during the construction of a gas
pipeline in Burma. A 1997 decision in Doe v. Unocal, relying
heavily on our 1995 victory in Karadzic, established that
multinational corporations may be liable for human rights
violations when they are complicit in abuses committed by
partner states. The parties reached a settlement in 2004.
A humanitarian fund resulting from the settlement will be
launched in September 2007.
CCR continues to use its expertise in this area of law to
expand the use of the Alien Tort Statute. We maintain a
listserv for attorneys litigating these cases and organize
Continuing Legal Education courses and conferences on
the subject. Whether human rights violations are committed
by corporations or by governments, CCR will continue to use
innovative legal strategies to hold violators accountable.
1980
Filártiga v. Peña-Irala
Revived Alien Tort Statute (ATS) for lawsuits by non-citizens in U.S.
courts challenging violations of international human rights. Won a
suit on behalf of the family of Joelito Filártiga, son of a prominent
opponent of the right-wing Paraguayan regime, who was tortured and
killed by Paraguayan police.
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1981
Dotson v. City of Indianola, Miss.
Compelled the city to comply with
the Voting Rights Act.
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1980
Harris v. McRae
Challenged the Hyde Amendment
restricting poor women’s right to federal
Medicaid funding for abortion, lost 5-4
in the Supreme Court.
1982
Crumsey v. Justice Knights of the Ku Klux Klan
Revived a 19th century statute to win the first
damages case against the KKK and secured an
injunction against their campaign of assault,
intimidation and harassment.

International Law and Accountability
It has been more than three years since the revelations of
torture and abuse at Abu Ghraib prison, yet aside from a
few prosecutions of low-level officials, there has been no
accountability up the chain of command. Last fall, CCR filed
a renewed complaint in Germany charging Donald Rumsfeld,
Alberto Gonzales, and 12 other high-ranking U.S. officials with
responsibility for war crimes under the doctrine of universal
jurisdiction, which allows suspected war criminals to be prosecuted
regardless of where they are located or where the violations
took place. The complaint was brought on behalf of 13 torture
victims – 12 who were held at Abu Ghraib prison and one detainee
at Guantánamo. In April 2007, the German Federal Prosecutor,
under political pressure to end the complaint, announced she
would not move forward with an investigation. We are exploring
other international venues for the case in order to keep the
spotlight on this issue and keep open the possibility of holding
these officials accountable.
CCR includes international law claims in many of our cases,
seeking to have U.S. courts recognize these norms and thus
strengthen protections and increase the remedies available to
our clients. We also file amicus briefs in cases brought by other
organizations. For example, this year we filed an amicus arguing
that international law places limits on the government’s power to
deport individuals when it breaks up families – and to broaden the
legal context for holding all officials accountable for human rights
abuses, no matter where they occur.
In 2004, CCR, together with the Center for Justice and Accountability,
filed a civil suit against Emmanuel “Toto” Constant, the
former leader of the Haitian paramilitary organization FRAPH.
Two of our clients were gang-raped in front of their families and
a third was attacked by FRAPH operatives and left for dead. The
lawsuit accused Constant of crimes against humanity, attempted
summary execution and rape and other torture. In August 2006,
Constant was found liable and in October, our clients were
awarded $19 million in damages. We also played a crucial role
this past year in ensuring that Constant, who fled to New York in
1994, was prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law for mortgage
fraud he committed while living in the United States.
1983
Briggs v. Goodwin
Led a team of lawyers in successfully defending leaders of the Vietnam Veterans
Against the War and the Gainesville 8, who were prosecuted in Florida for conspiring
to disrupt the 1972 Republican National Convention. CCR’s jury challenge on
the inclusion of women in juries in this case also formed the basis for a subsequent
Supreme Court challenge on this issue.
In late 2005, CCR brought a class action lawsuit against Lt. Gen.
Moshe Ya’alon, who was head of the Intelligence Branch of the
Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) in April 1996 when the IDF shelled a
UN compound in Qana, Lebanon, killing more than 100 civilians,
almost half of whom were children. The case was dismissed in
December 2006, with the judge stating that General Ya’alon
cannot be sued for the bombing of the UN compound because
he was acting in his official capacity in the IDF and has immunity
under the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act.
CCR filed a similar lawsuit in December 2005 against Avi
Dichter, former director of Israel’s General Security Service,
on behalf of Palestinians who were killed or injured in a 2002
air strike in Gaza. Mr. Dichter participated in the decision to drop
a one-ton bomb on a densely populated residential neighborhood.
The attack, which killed seven adults and eight children, injured
more than 150 people and destroyed or damaged almost 40
homes, was widely condemned by the international community,
including the United States government. This case was dismissed
in May 2007, when the judge ruled that Mr. Dichter was acting in
the course of his official duties and has immunity. CCR plans to
appeal both decisions.
As in other areas of CCR’s work, our international law and
accountability work is not limited to the courtroom. We are also
deeply involved in public education and grassroots outreach
work around these issues. For example, on January 25, 2007, we
sponsored an event, “From Pinochet to Rumsfeld,” which focused
on holding U.S. officials accountable for torture using the mechanisms
of universal jurisdiction and international law. Featuring
attorneys from CCR and our partners in the complaint against
Rumsfeld in Germany, the event linked CCR’s international legal
work with the grassroots anti-torture movement.
CCR often takes cases other organizations will not. We continue
to find creative ways to ensure that no one, no matter how powerful,
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1983
Crockett v. Reagan
Challenged U.S. military involvement
in El Salvador in the first suit under the
War Powers Resolution.
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Prison Telephone Victory
This was an incredible year for the New York Campaign
for Telephone Justice, CCR’s campaign to end the
illegal and exploitative contract between MCI – now
Verizon/MCI – and the New York State Department of
Correctional Services (NYSDOCS).
In order for families to stay in touch with their loved ones in New
York State prisons by phone, they must accept collect calls from a
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1983
Soto v. Romero-Barcelo
Brought suit to uncover FBI involvement in the killing of young
pro-independence activists at Cerro Maravilla, Puerto Rico. Led to substantial
awards to plaintiffs, televised Puerto Rican Senate hearings and
several convictions of police officers for obstruction of justice and perjury.
Ivey Walton, plaintiff in Walton v. New York
State Department of Correctional Services,
one of our prison telephone cases
monopoly provider that until recently cost 630 percent more than
regular consumer rates and provided a nearly 60 percent kickback
commission to the State.
Since 1999, CCR has been fighting in the courts and on the
ground to end the contract. Family members repeatedly reported
to CCR that they were being forced to choose between paying
for basic needs like rent, utilities and food and speaking to their
loved ones in prison. With funding from the JEHT foundation,
1983
Conyers v. Reagan
Challenged the U.S.
invasion of Grenada.
1983
Nation v. Haig
Defended the right of
Americans to receive
Cuban publications.

the Center launched the New York Campaign for Telephone
Justice in late 2004, mobilizing prison families across the state
in a strategic effort that combined grassroots organizing, innovative
media and marketing techniques, and aggressive legislative
advocacy.
The culmination of this Campaign occurred in January 2007
when New York State Governor Eliot Spitzer, a mere eight days
into his new administration, announced the elimination of the
kickback commissions which immediately reduced the prison
telephone rates by half with additional savings anticipated. In
response to our efforts, the New York State Legislature passed
our Family Connections Bill, which bars New York State from
profiting from any future prison telephone contracts and must
“prioritize the lowest cost to the consumer” rather than providing
the highest commission for the State.
We continue the fight in court with Walton v. NYSDOCS and
MCI, which seeks a judgment that the State’s commission is
an illegal and unconstitutional tax and would compensate
affected families for the years that they have overpaid for calls
from loved ones.
Studies almost universally find that maintaining close and
consistent ties with one’s family and community is the single
most important factor in a prisoner’s success when released
and re-entering society. Yet, more than 40 states have similar
policies, gouging prison families for profit and keeping families
disconnected.
After our amazing success this year in New York, we will be
working with local grassroots groups and activists in other states
to end the practice across the country. We seek to bring family
members, policy makers and criminal justice advocates together
to examine this issue and to strategize around making the Campaign
for Telephone Justice a national effort so that all families
and inmates receive fair rates and can remain in touch with their
loved ones. n
1984
Reagan v. Wald
Sought, with Leonard Boudin and the NECLC, to enjoin
restrictions on travel to Cuba on the basis that such
restrictions deprived people of the constitutional right to
travel; lost 5-4 in the Supreme Court.
1984
Sanchez v. Reagan
Challenged U.S. officials’
support for torture, murder
and rape in Nicaragua.
Prison Justice
In addition to our Prison Telephone Campaign, CCR has
continued to keep a spotlight on issues of mass incarceration
and access to justice for prisoners.
Jailhouse Lawyers’ Handbook
In response to an overwhelming demand, this year we produced
and mailed over 3,000 copies of the Jailhouse Lawyer’s
Handbook: How to Bring a Federal Lawsuit to Challenge Violations
of your Rights in Prison, to inmates across the country.
Co-authored in 2003 by CCR and the National Lawyers Guild,
the handbook is a free resource for prisoners and their family
members who wish to learn about legal options for challenging
mistreatment in prison.
‘Supermax’ Prison Case
CCR continues work on our Ohio ‘supermax’ prison case:
Wilkinson v. Austin. Since our 2004 Court of Appeals victory,
the case was remanded to District Court where CCR continues
the struggle to enforce the Court’s ruling that prisoners cannot
be held in prolonged solitary confinement without due process.
In addition, there has been a suicide and a number of suicide
attempts at the prison, and we are seeking a hearing to
re-impose psychiatric care requirements.
Jail Expansion Report
In May 2007, we issued Impacts of Jail Expansion in New York
State: A Hidden Burden, authored by Dana Kaplan, CCR’s Open
Society Institute Soros Justice Fellow. The report finds that the
recent increase in jail expansion is driven by a little-known
state agency – the State Commission of Corrections (SCOC)
– rather than the needs and wishes of local municipalities,
despite the fact that the overall need for space is decreasing.
Ms. Kaplan also completed a six month residency in New
Orleans assessing post-Katrina detention issues.
1985
CISPES v. FBI
Brought suit after CCR’s Movement
Support Network campaign and
Freedom of Information Act requests
revealed massive spying on the El
Salvador solidarity movement.
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1985
Greenham Women Against Cruise Missiles v. Reagan
Fought nuclear weapons proliferation; sought to use the U.S.
legal system to enjoin the United States from deploying first use
nuclear missiles in Great Britain.
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1985
McSurely v. McClellan
Won damages from the U.S. government on behalf of Al and
Margaret McSurely, two voting rights activists, for gross violation
of their privacy and Fourth Amendment rights.

Since 9/11, the United States has ramped up its global
detention and rendition policies in an irrational calculus
that claims security requires putting severe limits on
civil and human rights. Secret trials, arbitrary detention,
inhumane conditions of detention and chilling of political
expression are all being employed domestically as well, primarily
targeting immigrant communities. CCR has several cases that
challenge the U.S. government’s attacks on immigrants in the
name of national security.
In response to the racial profiling and detention of more
than 1,200 Arab, South Asian, and Muslim men in the months
following September 11, 2001, CCR filed Turkmen v. Ashcroft
in 2002 on behalf of a class of non-citizens from Arab and South
Asian countries who were detained at the Metropolitan Detention
Center (MDC) in Brooklyn, NY. Even though most of these
men were being held for minor visa or immigration violations,
some were held without charge for as long as nine months and
subjected to severe verbal and physical abuse.
In June 2006, we won an important victory when the court ruled
that senior government officials would not be excluded from the
case under the theory of governmental immunity. Government
officials, including FBI Director Robert Mueller and former
Attorney General John Ashcroft, remain on the complaint and
may be held accountable in the courts. Unfortunately, the court
also dismissed CCR’s racial profiling and prolonged detention
claims. Both sides are appealing.
In April 2007, three amicus briefs solicited by CCR were filed.
The first is by descendants of Japanese Americans interned during
World War II, outlining the parallels between what was done to
Japanese Americans in the 1940’s and the profiling of Muslim,
Arab, and South Asian men today. Said one of the descendants,
Jay Hirabayashi, “I joined the amicus brief because I believe
that the U.S. Constitution and the Bill of Rights should be
inviolable in time of war as much as they are in times of peace.
That’s what my father always said and he went to prison holding
those beliefs.”
1985
U.S. v. Maria del Scorro Pardo de Aguilar
Defended sanctuary workers, members of church groups who
provided shelter, medical care and protection for refugees from
El Salvador and Guatemala, from government prosecution.
Attacks on Immigrants
The second amicus brief is from former prison wardens and
explains the dangers of segregating prisoners on the basis of race
or religion. The third was submitted by immigration scholars
and explains how settled immigration law was misapplied by
the lower court when it held that the government did not violate
the law by keeping these men for weeks and months beyond
when their immigration issues had been resolved. Briefing was
completed over the summer, and we expect arguments to be
scheduled for this fall. In the meantime, CCR has completed over
40 depositions of defendants and witnesses and traveled to Egypt
and Turkey to conduct investigations.
In January 2007, CCR won a major victory for members of the
“Los Angeles 8” when an immigration judge ordered an end to
deportation proceedings against Khader Hamide and Michel
Shehadeh. The judge terminated the proceedings because of
the government’s refusal to disclose evidence favorable to the
immigrants in compliance with his orders, calling the government’s
actions in the twenty-year-long case “an embarrassment
to the rule of law.”
The government had been seeking to deport Hamide and
Shehadeh since January 1987 based on their alleged support
for the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP),
a group within the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO).
This ‘support’ consisted entirely of lawful First Amendment
activities, includ ing distributing newspapers, participating in
demonstrations and organizing humanitarian aid fundraisers
for Palestinians.
Throughout the year, we continued our coalition work with
immigrants’ rights groups including Detention Watch Network
and Rights Working Group. In January, CCR and a host of other
national organizations filed a petition with the Department of
Homeland Security to create enforceable regulations governing
detention centers. CCR remains dedicated to defending everyone’s
right to fair and open trials and to ending the targeting of
people based on religion, ethnicity or political activity. n
1986
Republic of the Philippines v. Marcos
Recovered New York real estate bought
with illicit funds by Philippine dictator.
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Warrantless Surveillance
For decades, the U.S. government has used unlawful
surveillance to monitor and intimidate activists: from the
Black Panthers and the anti-war movement in the 1960’s
and 70’s, to the Central America Solidarity Movement
in the 80’s, to administration critics today. For decades CCR has
been there to challenge these programs.
1986
People v. Liberta (amicus)
Struck down New York
State’s marital rape exemption
in its entirety.
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1986
Kinoy v. Mitchell
Challenged warrantless wiretapping
and massive surveillance of Arthur
Kinoy in his role as lawyer for the
United Electrical Workers.
Almost two years ago The New York Times revealed that since
2001, the National Security Agency (NSA) had engaged in
warrantless electronic surveillance in violation of the U.S. Constitution
and the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) with
the express approval of President Bush. Enacted in 1978, FISA
sought to prevent abuses of power by the Executive like those
under the Nixon Administration. CCR won a landmark decision
in 1972 (U.S. v U.S. District Court (Keith)) that struck down
President Nixon’s warrantless surveillance of domestic activists.
1987
United States v. Turner
Secured the acquittal of voting rights activists charged
with voter fraud and revealed a Justice Department
campaign to intimidate activists who sought to ensure
compliance with the 1965 Voting Rights Act.

Within weeks of learning about the NSA program, we filed CCR
v. Bush in early 2006—arguing that the program violates FISA,
the First and Fourth Amendments and the separation of powers.
In December, a judicial panel ordered CCR v. Bush transferred to
a court in San Francisco where related cases are being argued. In
January 2007, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales announced that
the President had decided to let the existing warrantless NSA
program expire because the administration had convinced a
single judge of the secret FISA court to issue orders that, according
to Gonzales, would allow the same sort of surveillance to
occur—thus allowing the government to claim our case was now
moot. CCR fought that argument saying there was no assurance
that the administration had indeed stopped the spying or that the
FISA oversight complied with the spirit or the letter of the law.
This past summer, it was revealed that two other FISA judges
found that those surveillance orders were invalid when they came
up for renewal in April and May.
The government claims the orders—like everything else relating
to the NSA Program—are secret. Because of this, they have not
been made public, nor have they even been released to Congress.
Four days before we were to argue our case, the Democratic Congress
passed a Bush administration bill effectively gutting FISA’s
protections for phone calls and emails with people overseas.
The day after the argument, CCR attorneys filed the first papers
challenging the new statute on Fourth Amendment grounds.
In a related case filed this year, Wilner v. NSA, CCR went to court
to force compliance with Freedom of Information Act (FOIA)
requests we made in January 2006 requesting all records of NSA
warrantless wiretapping of attorneys who represent men detained
at Guantánamo. The plaintiffs, who include CCR attorneys as well
as co-counsel, believe that conversations between themselves and
family members and foreign attorneys of clients at Guantánamo
were illegally monitored by the government.
Last year, we also filed an amicus brief in Hepting v. AT&T,
arguing for the release of documents that disclose AT&T’s
1987
Jackson v. Allain
Filed a federal class action lawsuit
challenging racially discriminatory
runoff elections in Mississippi.
Surveillance & Material Support
1988
Haase v. Webster
Challenged Customs Service spying,
seizure and copying of address books
of travelers to Nicaragua.
involvement with NSA data mining and the warrantless surveillance
program. We will continue to press the administration for
a full accounting of its domestic spying and work to expose more
aspects of the program to the public. n
Material Support:
Guilt by Association
CCR has a series of cases that challenge statutes
making it illegal to provide support, including
humanitarian aid, expert advice or political
advocacy, to any foreign entity that the executive
branch decides to designate as a “terrorist” group. The
lead plaintiff in the cases is the Humanitarian Law Project
(HLP), a Los Angeles-based non-profit that advocates for the
peaceful resolution of armed conflicts and wanted to assist
the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) by providing them with
training in nonviolent conflict resolution and human rights
monitoring in Turkey. Several Tamil-American organizations
who are seeking to provide medical assistance to tsunami
victims and expertise to improve healthcare in war-ravaged
northeast Sri Lanka—which would require working in areas
controlled by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE)—
are also represented in the cases. Because both the PKK and
LTTE are on the State Department’s blacklist of “foreign
terrorist organizations,” providing such humanitarian
assistance could result in long jail terms.
CCR argues that the material support provisions in the
material support statute and related prohibitions created
by President Bush’s executive order, violate the First
Amendment and create guilt by association by criminalizing
support solely intended to promote the lawful and non-violent
activities of a designated organization. The court has ruled
multiple times that the provisions are unconstitutionally
vague. Both sides have appealed from parts of the district
judges’ latest rulings, and we are currently awaiting a
decision from the Court of Appeals.
1988
Martinez-Baca v. Suarez-Mason
Sought justice for victims of
Argentine death squads under
Alien Tort Statute.
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1988
NOW v. Terry
Established precedent for a buffer zone around
abortion clinics, where anti-abortion “Operation
Rescue” campaigners could not harass or intimidate
women seeking medical services.
1988
Veterans Peace Convoy v. Schultz
Represented veterans’ group stopped
at border when it tried to leave U.S.
with humanitarian aid for Nicaragua,
and won.
Free Trade of the Americas (FTAA)
protest in Miami, November 2003
1988
Palestine Information Office v. Schultz
(amicus)
Defended PIO’s right to disseminate
information freely as guaranteed by the
Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

CCR continues to vigorously defend the right to protest
government practices as one of the most fundamental
and necessary liberties for a society that considers itself
a democracy.
In April 2007, CCR filed a case on behalf of three Black activists
who were arrested while filming members of the New York City
Police Department as part of a CopWatch program.
The three plaintiffs are all members of the Malcolm X Grassroots
Movement (MXGM), a community-based organization that seeks
to defend the human rights of the Black community. The MXGM
CopWatch program is modeled after the police accountability
activities of the Black Panthers and seeks to expose, document,
and deter abuse in the Black community by observing police
activities in neighborhoods where police misconduct and violence
are rampant.
The suit charges that their constitutional rights were violated when
they were falsely arrested for exercising their First Amendment
right to videotape police activity. With this case, Bandele v. City
of New York, CCR continues our proud history of legal work that
supports political movements on the ground, in the streets and in
court.
CCR’s work protecting the right to dissent further expanded
by taking on new cases that challenge the mass arrests of
protesters during the first U.S. meeting of the Free Trade Area
of the Americas (FTAA) in Miami, Florida in November 2003.
During the demonstration, more than 280 people were arrested;
not one was convicted.
This year, CCR joined with the National Lawyers Guild’s Mass
Defense Committee on Killmon, et al. v. City of Miami, et al.,
Freedom of Expression
& the Right to Dissent
From its very beginnings in the Southern civil rights movement,
CCR has always been at the forefront of defending political movements
and activists, and in particular our right to criticize the
government. Texas v. Johnson is an example of the role CCR has
played in defending the right to political expression and dissent.
1989
In the Matter of Randall
Won right of poet Margaret Randall to
regain her U.S. citizenship in the face of
attacks by U.S. that she was ineligible
because she was a Communist.
1989
Texas v. Johnson
Won decision in the Supreme
Court and defended freedom of
expression in flag burning case.
Attacks on Dissent
a class action on behalf of 21 activists that challenges the government’s
deliberate disruption of lawful political protests during
the FTAA proceedings. Pursuant to a joint operational plan, over
40 state, local and federal agencies created the so-called “Miami
Model” of policing mass demonstrations in the U.S. using political
profiling, mass false arrests and so called “less-lethal” weapons.
The case also takes on the illegal actions of the Department of
Homeland Security and FBI in conducting unlawful surveillance
and intelligence gathering on activists. This case is currently in
discovery and is scheduled for trial in 2008.
The Center’s staff attorneys also assisted in the settlement of a
lawsuit brought in June 2006 on behalf of the Florida Alliance for
Retired Americans, the Broward Anti-War Coalition, the Broward
County Green Party, the Green Party of Florida, Haiti Solidarity
and Lake Worth for Global Justice. Florida Alliance for Retired
Americans v. City of Fort Lauderdale was filed to protect constitutional
rights in anticipation of human rights protests at the first
U.S. meeting of the Organization of American States (OAS).
After tactics used by the City of Miami in 2003 to curtail protests
at the FTAA meetings, the groups sought to have the court uphold
their constitutional rights in order to deter police misconduct,
preempt unlawful arrests and prevent infringement on their constitutional
right to freedom of speech and assembly. A settlement
was reached in May 2007 that prohibits the City of Ft. Lauderdale
from enforcing ordinances which allowed government officials to
restrict political demonstrations on public sidewalks and streets in
violation of the First Amendment.
CCR continues to fight the 2003 wrongful arrests of 53
peaceful anti-war protesters in our case Kunstler v. City of New
York. Along with co-counsel at Emory, Celli, Brinkerhoff &
Abady, we recently succeeded in fighting off the City’s attempt
to force the protesters to produce all of their past psychological
files, and we are currently involved in a dispute over the City’s
refusal to state whether undercover police officers were present
at the demonstration, and the extent of the police infiltration and
surveillance of the group’s organizing coalition. We expect the
case to go to trial in 2008. n
1990
County Redistricting Cases
Ensured that electoral redistricting complied with
federal standards set by the Voting Rights Act in
more than a dozen cases brought in the South.
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The Ella Baker Fellowship Program
This year, the Center proudly
commemorates the 20th anniversary
of our renowned Ella Baker
Fellowship Program, created
in 1987 to fulfill part of CCR’s mission:
to train the next generation of people’s
lawyers. Named after Ella Baker to honor
the memory and legacy of a great and
often unheralded leader of the civil rights
movement, the program strives to embody
Ella Baker’s firm commitment to mentoring
and developing young leaders to carry
the mantle of the struggle for social justice
through the generations.
Ella Baker
Born in Virginia in 1903, Ella Baker graduated
from Shaw University and shortly
after moved to Harlem, where she found
a community that shared her interest in
social justice. After serving in several posts
with the NAACP, Ms. Baker turned her
attention to grassroots organizing, finding
the emphasis on legal strategies alone insufficient.
As a woman in a male dominated
movement, Ella Baker pushed beyond
long-established norms and distinguished
herself as a leader in her own right.
She played a several key roles with the
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
(SCLC) and then turned her attention to
organizing students through the Student
Non-Violent Coordinating Committee
(SNCC). Her commitment to the concept
of group-centered leadership evolved into
a defining element of her approach to
movement work. She was also instrumental
in the Mississippi Freedom Democratic
Party effort that would bring the founders
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1990
Municipal At-Large Cases
Rid municipalities throughout
the southern United States of
this particular type of racially
discriminatory voting system.
of CCR to the South in 1964 and lay the
foundation for the Center’s work over the
next 40 years.
The Ella Baker
Fellowship Program
The Ella Baker Fellowship Program was
established in 1987 by Marilyn Clement,
CCR’s then Executive Director. When Ella
Baker passed away in December 1986,
Marilyn attended her funeral and was
struck by how many groups within the civil
rights movement were represented, in spite
of differences that existed among them.
“They all came together to honor Miss
Baker,” Marilyn recalls, “and I saw the effect
that one tiny powerful figure, a woman
no less, could have in changing history.”
Marilyn immediately decided to create an
Ella Baker Student Center to help students
develop their political education. The goal
has always been to cultivate and nurture
dedicated political lawyers and activists.
The Ella Baker Fellowship has trained hundreds
of students over the past 20 years.
Most have gone on to careers dedicated
to public service: from indigent defense
to prison reform litigation; international
human rights law and social and economic
rights to racial justice and police misconduct
work. Others lead organizations that
are dedicated to the principles espoused by
Ella Baker. The Center is proud of the Ella
Baker Fellowship Program, a powerful
immersion in legal and political education,
and is equally proud of the legions of
Fellows who have continued the tradition
of political lawyering created by CCR four
decades ago. n
1990
Dellums v. Bush
Challenged George H. W. Bush’s
attempt to declare war unilaterally,
without congressional authorization,
during the first Gulf War.
Internships and
Fellowships
In addition to the Ella Baker Program,
CCR offers undergraduate students the
opportunity to work on cases as well
as campaigns throughout the year. At
any given time, there are several college
students assisting attorneys and
organizers with intake, responding to
requests for information, and providing
much-needed help with event planning
and outreach. We are also very proud
of our International Scholars program,
which brings law students and lawyers
from around the globe to spend time at
CCR, examining the American system
of jurisprudence and working with CCR
attorneys to develop knowledge about
international law and human rights
litigation. We have hosted scholars
from England, Germany, East Timor,
Trinidad, People’s Republic of China,
and many other countries.
1990
U.S. v. Eichman
Defended freedom of expression and won decision
in the Supreme Court for the second time
in flag burning case.

1991
American Baptist Churches v. Thornburgh
With the National Lawyers Guild and Marc
Van der Hout, won asylum for Salvadoran
and Guatemalan nationals fleeing persecution
by U.S.-supported regimes.
1991
The Nation Magazine v. U.S.
Department of Defense
Challenged government press
restrictions during first Gulf War.
Celebrating 20 Years
LaShawn Warren, Ella Baker Class of 1995
Raised in Savannah, Georgia, LaShawn Warren experienced the harsh realities of growing up without
material wealth in a racially charged city, but she credits these experiences with helping her bring
understanding and passion to her civil rights advocacy work. She applied to the Ella Baker program “to better
understand the practical application of the law, particularly as it relates to minority voting rights in the South.”
Since graduating from Howard University School of Law in 1996, LaShawn has held several public
interest legal positions, including serving as Legislative Counsel at the American Civil Liberties Union in
their Washington National Office. Currently, she serves as Oversight Counsel for the House Judiciary
Committee. “During my time at CCR, I met so many inspiring people who dedicated their lives to securing justice and equality
for minorities throughout the South. I learned a great deal about voting rights law and got a real sense of how the law, if applied
properly, can transform the lives of everyday people.”
Sunita Patel, Ella Baker Class of 2004
Sunita Patel became an Ella Baker Fellow following her second year at American University School of Law.
The daughter of South Asian immigrants and raised in South Carolina, Sunita developed her interest in
social justice early on, based on her personal experiences. Educated at predominantly Black schools, Sunita
witnessed blatant racism firsthand, and as a teen became involved in organizations dedicated to human rights
and the struggle for racial justice. She was greatly influenced by Ajamu Baraka, a new member of the CCR
Board. “Ajamu inspired in me the concept that social change is shaped by the people – in an ethical way that
recognizes racial justice as a human rights issue,” Sunita says.
Sunita is now an OSI Fellow at the Legal Aid Society of New York where she works on immigrant detention issues. She also
continues to work with CCR on a pro se manual for immigrant detainees. “Being an Ella Baker really prepared and trained me
to work with community groups as a member of the community. I was exposed to a broad range of experiences – human rights,
international law, and prisoners’ rights.”
Yasmin Davis, Ella Baker Class of 2007
Yasmin Davis was born and raised in the Bronx; both of her parents are from the Dominican Republic.
Her parents’ commitment to Yasmin and her siblings’ success taught her that struggling communities need
strong advocates who can identify with the obstacles and challenges facing that community. Her goal in
attending law school was simple: “I wanted to work for my community. Armed with a solid legal education,
an insider’s perspective into the culture, and a background in public interest, I knew I could provide a sense
of familiarity and understanding to my clients as a public defense lawyer.”
Yasmin is entering her final year of law school at CUNY School of Law in New York. While at CCR, she
became very involved in the New York Campaign for Telephone Justice. “I knew what MCI was doing was wrong. Coming from
a direct services background, I wanted to enhance my knowledge of how impact litigation can be used as a tool to create social
change. I learned how a wide range of strategies are used to move claims forward”.
1992
Weinbaum v. Cuomo
Challenged New York State’s disparate funding of
senior college programs in its two public university
systems; where the overwhelmingly white SUNY
system is funded at higher levels than the minority
CUNY system. First public higher education fiscal
equity case outside the Deep South.
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1992
Linder v. Calero
Exposed U.S. support for the Contras in Nicaragua as
responsible for the 1987 murder of Benjamin Linder, an
American community worker. 1992 decision won the right
to sue for personal injury for war crimes.
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CCR in the News
The Center’s work continues to
recieve wide coverage in the news.
Our staff and board members have
been called upon to provide their
expertise; to comment on cases and
our campaigns; and to represent the
progressive view in the media.
CCR appeared in a Ted Koppel Discovery
program on Guantánamo, in
a BBC documentary on rendition, in
a Dan Rather Reports special on the
“Green Scare,” on the evening news,
and in a feature on MTV News. We
have been repeatedly interviewed in
Movement Support
A key aspect of CCR’s mission is to provide support to grassroots
movements. That support comes in many forms, from legal to
material. We provide space for meetings and phone banking, help
with press outreach, and bring organizations working on similar
issues together to brainstorm and build coalitions. In the last year,
CCR has extended movement support to groups ranging from the
Domestic Workers Union, a growing grassroots movement orga-
CCR in Action
major newspapers, had two editorials
run in The New York Times in
support of our prison telephone
work, contributed to and been cited
in countless blogs, and made myriad
appearances on NPR, Pacifica, and
Democracy Now! and many local
and national radio shows running the
gamut from left to right. All of our
media work helps raise the Center’s
profile and is critical to changing
the public discourse around the
issues most important to us and
our supporters.
The Center’s web based organizing and eductional efforts have
grown exponentially in the last year. The number of our on-line
supporters has more than doubled to nearly 50,000 and together
we have sent tens of thousands of letters to Congress and other
targets. We alerted activists to looming threats and provided links
to toolkits and resources they could use. The flood of letters to a
New York State Supreme Court judge about the war crimes
committed by Emanuel “Toto” Constant in Haiti so impressed
nizing childcare workers, home aides and housecleaners to fight
for their rights, to People’s Justice, a coalition formed to fight
police brutality in the wake of the shooting of Sean Bell, to a host
of criminal justice reform advocates organizing to oppose restrictive
revisions to the standards governing New York City prisons.
Strengthening the progressive movement crosses organizational
lines, and CCR is proud to offer help.
him that he revoked the plea bargain he had accepted in the
paramilitary leader’s mortgage fraud case. Together we demanded
that Congress restore habeas corpus and close Guantánamo,
that the German federal prosecutor take up our case against Donald
Rumsfeld and Alberto Gonzales and that Condoleezza Rice
prevent one of our clients from being sent home to Libya to be
tortured. Together we target important issues, mobilize activists
and add a unique voice to the political dialogue and legal debate.
1992
AFSC v. Brady
Won right to group travel to
Vietnam and Cambodia.
1993
Haitian Centers Council Inc. v. Sale
Secured an order in federal court that
closed detention camp at Guantánamo
Bay for HIV-positive Haitian refugees.

Youth Outreach
This past year CCR has ventured into
new areas and put renewed energy into
reaching out to students and other young
people through partnerships with high
schools and universities, utilizing media
directed at young people, supporting
student organizing on college campuses,
and expanding our presence on social
networking sites.
As part of our broadened education and
outreach efforts, we partnered with the
Institute for Urban Education at the New
School for Social Research in New York
City to develop a high school curriculum
on torture and rendition. In addition, we
established a relationship with the High
School for Human Rights and sponsored
one of their students as an intern. This intern
assisted our Education and Outreach
Department with the New York Campaign
for Telephone Justice and helped organize
the Haitian Support Network protest
during the sentencing of former Haitian
paramilitary leader Emmanuel “Toto”
Constant.
CCR partnered with MTV to produce
a news segment on Guantánamo that
focused on one of our young Guantánamo
Project staff members as she prepared
to visit our clients at the offshore prison
camp. The five-minute-long segment aired
several times over the course of a week on
the station’s news program. A longer video
segment was also available on the MTV
website, where it was accompanied by
a lengthy article highlighting why
Guantánamo is a relevant issue to youth
in the U.S.
1994
Helen Todd v. Sintong Panjaitan
Held Indonesian military official responsible
for massacre in East Timor.
As new media and new forms of online
social interaction continue to grow in
importance, we have begun exploring how
to best use these technologies to
engage a broader audience. As part of
those efforts, we created new social
networking pages on MySpace and
Facebook and posted video clips on
YouTube featuring interviews of many
of our clients, such as Canadian rendition
victim Maher Arar.
On Law Day, May 1, 2007, CCR organized
law students across the country to
fight the Military Commissions Act, in
1994
Paul v. Avril
Won $41 million judgment against
Haitian military dictator responsible
for torturing political dissidents.
particular the provision that attempts to
strip the right of habeas corpus from the
detainees. Re-naming the day “Restore
Habeas Corpus Day,” law students from
Harvard University, American University,
the UC Berkeley, and several other
schools participated in demonstrations,
signature drives, letter-writing campaigns,
and other forms of advocacy to call on the
government to restore habeas corpus and
close down Guantánamo. In the coming
year, we hope to build on these relationships
and continue to work with students
and other young people on many of our
issues. n
Young Activist Fights For Detainee Rights
Susan Hu, a recent Columbia
graduate, talks about the
“hopelessness” she discovered
at Guantánamo Bay, where 380
so-called “enemy combatants” are
being held.
Now Playing Clip 1 of 1
Guantánamo Bay:
‘No End In Sight’
A young activist talks about her
experience visiting the detention
center, where 380 men who have
not stood trial are being held.
(5.15.07)
Guantánamo Bay: ‘No End In Sight’
A young activist talks about her experience visiting the detention
center, where 380 men who have not stood trial are being
held. (5.15.07)
To view this video, go to www.mtv.com and search ‘young activist’
1995
Lebron v. Amtrak
Won Supreme Court decision that struck
down federal restriction of political
artwork in New York’s Penn Station.
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40th Anniversary Celebration
Our May 2007 President’s Reception honored the work and the people who make the Center what it is: our staff, board members, supporters,
clients and allies. Thank you to everyone who made it possible for CCR to be on the frontlines for social justice for over 40 years. We wish
everyone could have joined us. Here are a few photos from that evening.
Vincent Warren
Ann Cammett
1995
StreetWatch v. National Railroad Passenger Corp.
Won an injunction in federal court preventing
Amtrak police from evicting or arresting those they
suspected of being homeless where no criminal
behavior was suspected.
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Allison Barlow
Nancy Meyer
Herbert Kurz
Dolly Filártiga
1995
Xuncax v. Gramajo; Ortiz v. Gramajo
Held Guatemalan Minister of
Defense responsible for torture,
assault and false imprisonment.
Kim Kerkley
Michelle DePass
1998
Salas v. United States
Required the U.S. to respond to an international
tribunal for the first time with respect
to allegations by ordinary citizens of gross
human rights violations committed during
U.S. invasion of Panama.

Cassim and Chung-Ja Jadwat
Wayne Roberts and Annie Hess
1998
Finley v. NEA
Challenged the decency provision in
government grants to artists; lost in
an 8-1 Supreme Court decision.
Shayana Kadidal and Jaykumar Menon
Edith Ziefert and Rachel Meeropol
Frank Deale
1999
Campaign To Save Our Hospitals v. Giuliani
Won case in the New York State Court of
Appeals to prevent the takeover of public
hospitals in New York City by for-profit
private companies.
Karen Ranucci and Michael Ratner
1999
Reno v. American-Arab
Anti-Discrimination Committee
Challenged selective enforcement of
immigration laws in defense of Palestinian
activists singled out for deportation
because of their political beliefs.
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1999
Goosby v. Town of Hempstead
Contested Hempstead NY’s at-large
voting system, which was racially
discriminatory; forced a transformation
of the voting system.
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The Center for Constitutional Rights was the first human
rights organization to fight for the rights of detainees
at Guantánamo Bay Naval Station and has been at the
forefront of the battle to end the use of offshore prisons
outside the reach of law. After winning a landmark Supreme
Court decision establishing that Guantánamo detainees can
challenge their detention in federal courts, CCR organized a
network of over 500 pro bono lawyers to file habeas corpus
petitions and founded the Guantanamo Global Justice
Initiative to coordinate this work.
The U.S. government has made every effort to evade
judicial review of its detention and interrogation practices
at Guantánamo Bay and consistently claims that detainees
need not ever be charged with a crime and tried, or given
an opportunity to challenge their detention in court. During
the past five years, CCR has compiled evidence that many of
the detainees have been tortured, abused, and humiliated
while in U.S. custody. We continue to call for humane
treatment of detainees and for the closing of the prison at
Guantánamo Bay.
More than five years after the first prisoners were sent to
Guantánamo, CCR continues to be a leader in the movement
to recognize habeas rights for detainees, regardless of
where they are held. We are working to ban torture and to
improve detention conditions at Guantanamo, at Bagram
Airbase in Afghanistan, at Abu Ghraib and elsewhere in Iraq,
and at secret CIA prisons around the world. As U.S. proxy
detention expands to the Horn of Africa and beyond, CCR’s
Guantánamo Global Justice Initiative remains dedicated to
the fight against secrecy and torture; to holding the U.S.
government accountable for its illegal actions; and to
obtaining justice for the victims.
Case Index
Al Odah v. United States
Lead case, with Boumediene v. Bush, in a group of consolidated
habeas corpus petitions on behalf of Guantánamo detainees.
These cases will be heard by the Supreme Court in the coming
term, and the outcome will determine the rights of the detainees
to challenge their detention in U.S. federal courts
Al-Qahtani v. Bush
Habeas corpus and DTA petition for Mohammed Al Qahtani,
who suffered physical and psychological torture when he was
subjected to the extraordinarily abusive “First Special Interrogation
Plan” authorized by Donald Rumsfeld
John Does 1-570 v. Bush
Habeas corpus petition filed on behalf of the hundreds of
unknown and unrepresented detainees in Guantánamo Bay
in 2005
Khan v. Bush
Habeas corpus petition for Majid Khan, who was held in
CIA secret detention for several years prior to his transfer to
Guantánamo
Ayoub Haji Mamet v. Bush and Razakah v. Bush
Habeas corpus petitions for five Uighurs mistakenly captured
by bounty hunters and sold to the U.S. military. Three have been
released to a refugee center in Albania, while two remain in
Guantánamo five years later, despite being told that their capture
was a mistake
Rasul v. Rumsfeld and Celikgogus v. Rumsfeld
Civil suits against Donald Rumsfeld and others responsible for
the detention, torture and mistreatment of, in total, nine men
illegally detained in Guantánamo for years, including two men
detained for more than four years and released years after being
classified as non-enemy combatants
Zalita v. Bush
The first legal challenge brought by a Guantánamo detainee to
an intended transfer to his native country, Libya, where he would
likely face torture or execution
2000
Doe v. Karadzic
Won a $4.5 billion judgment against Bosnian-Serb leader
Radovan Karadzic for genocide, war crimes and crimes against
humanity. The 1995 Second Circuit decision in this case recognized
that rape and sexual violence constitute torture and
genocide and laid the groundwork for cases against non-state
actors, including multinational corporations.
2001
Kiareldeen v. Reno
Challenged the use
of secret evidence in
deportation trials.

Abdallah El-Marqodi v. Bush
Abdessalam v. Bush
Abdullah v. Bush
Aboassy v. Bush
Ahmed “Doe” v. Bush
Ahmed v. Bush
Akhouzada v. Bush
Akhtiar v. Bush
Al Bahooth v. Bush
Al Darby v. Bush
Al Halmandy v. Bush
Al Hawary v. Bush
Al Nakheelan v. Bush
Al Rashaidan v. Bush
Al Salami v. Bush
Al Sharbi v. Bush
Al Subaie v. Bush
Al Wirghi v. Bush
Al Yafie v. Bush
Al-Asadi v. Bush
Al-Badah v. Bush
Al-Baidany v. Bush
Albkri v. Bush
Al-Delebany v. Bush
Al-Gatele v. Bush
Alghatani v. Bush
Al-Ghizzawi v. Bush
Alhag v. Bush
Alhami v. Bush
Al-Harbi, Ghanim-Abdulrahman
v. Bush
Al-Harbi, Mazin Salih v. Bush
Al-Hela v. Bush
Ali Ahmed v. Bush
Ali Al Jayf v. Bush
Alkhemisi v. Bush
Al-Maliki v. Bush
Almerfedi v. Bush
Al-Mithali v. Bush
2003
Daniels v. City of New York
Challenged racial profiling and
forced the notorious NYPD Street
Crime Unit to disband and established
ongoing montioring by CCR
and the courts.
Guantánamo Habeas Cases
Since CCR’s Supreme Court victory in Rasul v. Bush in 2004, over 200 habeas corpus petitions have been filed on behalf of
Guantánamo detainees by well over a hundred private law firms, law school clinics, and other legal organizations. CCR has been
a key coordinator of this tremendous effort and is co-counsel on the majority of cases filed. Below and on the facing page are the
Guantánamo cases that CCR is co-counsel on this year.
Almjrd v. Bush
Al-Mudafari v. Bush
Almurbati v. Bush
Al-Oshan v. Bush
Al-Rubaish v. Bush
Al-Rubaish v. Bush
Al-Shabany v. Rumsfeld
Al-Shimrani v. Bush
Al-Sopai v. Bush
Al-Zarnouqi v. Bush
Amin v. Bush
Anam v. Bush
Attash v. Bush
Awad v. Bush
Aweda v. Bush
Aziz, Abu Abdul v. Bush
Aziz, Ahamed Abdul v. Bush
Bacha v. Bush
Batarfi v. Bush
Battayav v. Bush
Begg v. Bush
Bin Amir v. Bush
Dhiab v. Bush
Edries v. Bush
El-Banna v. Bush
Elisher v. Bush
Gamil v. Bush
Gerab Alsaaei v. Bush
Ghanem v. Bush
Ghazy v. Bush
Gul v. Bush
Habib v. Bush
Hakmat v. Bush
Haleem v. Bush
Hamoodah v. Bush
Hamoud v. Bush
Hatim v. Bush
Hentif v. Bush
Hussein v. Bush
2004
Hamdi v. Rumsfeld (amicus)
Challenged the denial of habeas corpus to
an American citizen, Yaser Hamdi, in the
Supreme Court; won a decision restoring
Hamdi’s right to contest his detention. He
was subsequently released.
Isamattulah v. Bush
Kabir v. Bush
Khalid v. Bush
Khalifh v. Bush
Khan, Bulbas v. Bush
Khandan v. Bush
Kiyemba v. Bush
Lal v. Bush
Magram v. Bush
Mamet, Edham v. Bush
Mammar v. Bush
Maqaleh v. Rumsfeld
Mohammed v. Bush
Mohammon v. Bush
Mokit v. Bush
Moosa v. Bush
Muhammed v. Bush
Mustaph v. Bush
Nabil v. Bush
Naseem v. Bush
Naseer v. Bush
Odah v. Bush
Othman v. Bush
Qasim v. Bush
Qassim v. Bush
Qayed v. Bush
Rabbani v. Bush
Rahmattullah v. Bush
Rammi v. Bush
Rasul v. Rumsfeld
Rasul v. Bush
Razak v. Bush
Razakah v. Bush
Rimi v. Bush
Ruzatullah v. Rumsfeld
Saib v. Bush
Said v. Bush
Salahi al. v. Bush
Saleh v. Bush
Shafiq v. Bush
Suliman v. Bush
Taher v. Bush
Thabid v. Bush
Toukh v. Bush
Wasim v. Bush
Rasul v. Bush
In February 2002, shortly after the first detainees were
sent to Guantánamo, CCR filed this habeas corpus petition
challenging the U.S. government’s practice of holding foreign
nationals in indefinite detention; without charges, trials or
counsel. Over the Bush administration’s objections, the
Supreme Court heard the case and in June 2004 ruled
that detainees have access to U.S. courts to challenge the
detention and treatment in U.S. custody.
Following the ruling, CCR quickly organized a network of
attorneys to represent other Guantánamo detainees in
habeas proceedings. On August 30, 2004, CCR attorney
Gitanjali Gutierrez became the first civilian lawyer allowed
into Guantánamo.
2004
Rasul v. Bush
Won a Supreme Court decision establishing
U.S. courts’ jurisdiction over Guantánamo Bay
detainees and affirming detainees’ right to
habeas corpus review.
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Case Index (continued)
The Center for Constitutional Rights has many ongoing cases before state, federal and international courts every year.
Below is a list of cases and amicus briefs that we litigated or filed during the past year. In addition to these, we have been
developing numerous new cases as well as working closely with progressive attorneys and other organizations on a host
of constitutional and human rights issues.
Rendition & Ghost
Detention
Arar v. Ashcroft
Suing Ashcroft, Mueller and other U.S.
officials for sending Canadian citizen
Maher Arar to Syria to be tortured under
a policy of “extraordinary rendition”
Amnesty International, CCR, et al. v. CIA,
Department of Defense, et al.
Freedom of Information Act (FOIA)
lawsuit seeking information about ‘disappeared’
detainees, including those at CIA
‘ghost’ sites and unregistered prisoners
ACLU, CCR, et al. v. Department
of Defense
FOIA lawsuit charging that government
agencies illegally withheld records sought
by CCR concerning the abuse of detainees
in American military custody
Cuba Travel Embargo
Sanders v. Snow, et al.
Challenging the Treasury Department’s
violation of Fifth Amendment rights
by penalizing individuals for not filling
out a questionnaire regarding travel
to Cuba when doing so could result in
self-incriminating statements
U.S. v. Harrell
U.S. v. Heslop
U.S. v. Kennelly
U.S. v. Rawson
Legal defense of people in penalty
proceedings due to alleged violation of
the Cuba travel embargo (23 additional
cases were terminated in our clients’ favor
this year)
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International Law &
Accountability
Complaint to German Federal Prosecutor
re: Culpability of U.S. Officials in Abu
Ghraib & Guantánamo Torture
Petition submitted to the German Prosecutor
requesting an investigation into the
responsibility of civilian and military U.S.
officials for war crimes and torture under
the principle of “universal jurisdiction”
Doe v. Constant
Won a $19 million judgment against
Emmanuel ‘Toto’ Constant, leader of the
right-wing organization FRAPH in Haiti
for gross human rights violations
Matar, et al. v. Dichter
Suing Israeli official for a “targeted assassination”
in Gaza that killed eight children
and seven adults, and injured more than
150 civilians
Belhas, et al. v. Ya’alon
Class action against former Israeli official
responsible for the 1996 shelling of a UN
compound in Qana, Lebanon that killed
over 100 civilians most of whom were
women and children
Blake v. Carbone (amicus)
Second Circuit amicus brief arguing
international law places limits on government’s
power to deport individuals when
doing so would break up families
2004
Doe v. Unocal
Historic settlement reached with Unocal in case that alleged
corporate complicity in human rights violations in Burma.
Previous landmark rulings in this case established that companies
can be sued in U.S. courts for human rights violations
such as forced labor and rape.
Corporate Human
Rights Abuse
Vietnam Association for Victims of Agent
Orange/Dioxin, et al. v. Dow Chemical,
et al. (amicus)
Lawsuit charging chemical companies
with knowingly providing the U.S.
government with a poisonous agent to
be sprayed on civilians
Corrie, et al. v. Caterpillar, Inc.
Suing Caterpillar, Inc. for selling D9
bulldozers to the Israel Defense Forces,
knowing they would be used to destroy
homes and injure or kill the inhabitants
Wiwa v. Royal Dutch Petroleum
Wiwa v. Anderson
Wiwa v. Shell Petroleum Development
Company
Relatives of murdered leaders and activists
in Nigeria suing for human rights abuses
against the Ogoni people in Nigeria
Bowoto v. Chevron
Suing Chevron for its involvement in
three machine-gun attacks on unarmed
environmental protestors in Nigeria in
1998 and 1999
Saleh v. Titan
Suing Titan Corporation and CACI International
for conspiring with U.S. officials
to humiliate, torture and abuse people in
U.S. custody in Iraq
The Presbyterian Church of Sudan, et al.
v. Talisman Energy, Inc. (amicus)
Suing a Canadian company for aiding
and abetting human rights violations,
including war crimes, while engaged in
oil operations in southern Sudan
2004
Wilkinson v. Austin
Ruled the prisoners cannot be placed or indefinitely
detained in solitary confinement, at a maximum
security prison in Ohio, without due process.

Racial, Gender
and Economic Justice
Vulcan Society v. City of New York
Challenging discriminatory hiring practices
of the NYC Fire Department on behalf
of an association of Black firefighters and
individual class representatives
Gulino v. The Board of Education of the
City of New York and the New York State
Education Department
Class action on behalf of public school
teachers of color who are challenging the
use of discriminatory tests and licensing
rules
Daniels, et al. v. City of New York
Class action challenged racial profiling
and the ‘stop-and-frisk’ practices of the
notorious NYPD Street Crimes Unit
Tummino, et al. v. von Eschenbach
Representing feminist activists suing the
FDA for failure to approve the morningafter
pill as an over-the-counter drug
available to women of all ages
Harrington v. NY Metropolitan
Transit Authority
Defending the religious rights of Sikh
transit workers to wear turbans at work
Attacks on Immigrants
Turkmen v. Ashcroft
Fighting unlawful post 9/11 arrest, mass
detention and abusive treatment of South
Asian, Arab and Muslim non-citizens
In the Matters of Hamide and Shehadeh
Ended 20-year-long deportation proceedings
against, members of the “LA8”,
political activists who were lawfully
engaged in protected First Amendment
advocacy on behalf of Palestinians.
2006
Hamdan v. Rumsfeld (amicus)
Challenged Military Commissions; resulted in
the Supreme Court decision affirming the application
of Geneva Convention protocols to trials
of terrorism suspects.
Prison Justice
Walton v. New York State Department of
Correctional Services and MCI/Verizon
Challenging NYSDOCS’ monopoly
telephone contract with MCI/Verizon,
which forces family members to pay
exorbitant phone rates to speak with their
loved ones in prison
Byrd v. Goord
Fighting against exploitative telephone
rates and monopoly contracts that
adversely affect the ability of prisoners’
families to remain in contact
FCC Rule Making Petition
Petitioning the FCC to regulate interstate
prison telephone calls to ensure fair and
reasonable rates for prisoners and their
families
Wilkinson v. Austin
Working to enforce minimum due
process requirements for prisoners held
in extended solitary confinement at a
maximum security prison in Ohio.
Surveillance
CCR v. Bush
Challenging NSA warrantless domestic
electronic surveillance, asserting that it
violates FISA and the First and Fourth
Amendments
Wilner, et al. v. NSA, et al.
FOIA requests to determine if the
government has engaged in warrantless
wiretapping of CCR attorneys and
Guantánamo habeas counsel
Hepting v. AT&T (amicus)
Amicus brief arguing for release of allegedly
trade secret whistleblower documents
disclosing AT&T’s involvement with NSA
data mining and surveillance program
Material Support
Humanitarian Law Project v. Gonzales
Humanitarian Law Project v. Department
of the Treasury
First and Fifth Amendment challenges to
the “material support” statute and related
schemes that punish association with
foreign organizations placed on terrorism
lists
Attacks on Dissent
Bandele v. City of New York
Representing members of the Malcolm X
Grassroots Movement who were arrested
while filming NYPD officers as part of a
CopWatch program
Killmon, et al. v. City of Miami
Challenge to mass arrests and police
misconduct during the Free Trade of the
Americas meeting in Miami, FL
Kunstler v. NY
Suing the NYPD on behalf of protestors
who were illegally arrested during an
anti-war rally on April 7, 2003 and
detained for excessively long periods
of time
Florida Alliance for Retired Americans,
et al. v. City of Fort Lauderdale
Successful challenge to laws restricting
the First Amendment rights of political
activists in Florida
Ongoing
The CCR cases throughout this timeline and on our current
case list above, illustrate that we can never take for granted
the hard-won victories of the past. We have decades of work
ahead of us to repair the harm done to our democratic and
legal systems over the past few years. CCR will continue to be
on the forefront of legal thinking as we look towards the future.
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Friends & Allies
Over the past year, the Center for Constitutional Rights has worked with hundreds of attorneys, legal organizations, private law firms
and activists on our cases and campaigns. CCR extends its deepest appreciation for all they have done as volunteer attorneys, cooperating
attorneys, co-counsel and colleagues in the struggle for justice.
100 Blacks in Law
Enforcement Who Care
William J. Aceves
ACLU National Legal Dept
ACLU of Florida
ACLU of Southern California
Craig Acorn
Fahd Ahmed
Shereef Hadi Akeel
Akeel & Valentine P.C.
Prof. Susan Akram
Iyad Alami
Al-Awda NY
Ashlee Albies
Barbara Allan
Karima Amin
Amnesty International
Arts for Peace (New Paltz)
Ahilan Arulanantham
Assemble 4 Rights
Hon. Jeffrion Aubry
Audre Lorde Project
Michael Avery
Môjgone Azemun
Baach Robinson &
Lewis PLLC
Rosemary Bachvarova
Bailey House
David Baluarte
Denise Barnes
Raquel Batista
BAYAN USA
Ann Beeson
Myron Beldock
Beldock, Levine &
Hoffman LLP
Bellevue/NYU Program for
Survivors of Torture
Medea Benjamin
Phyllis Bennis
Almudena Bernabeu
Antoine Bernard
Frida Berrigan
Chandra Bhatnagar
Caroline Bettinger-López
Mamoni Bhattacharyya
Rathen Blau
Robert Bloom
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Douglas Bloom
Carolyn Patty Blum
Boston Univ Sch of Law
Locke Bowman
Bill Bowring
Bob Boyle
Brecht Forum
Bridge Street AWME Church
Matt Brinckerhoff
Judith Brink
Ben Brofman
Bronx Defenders
Bronx HIV Care Network
Brotherhood/Sister Sol
Tamir Z. Brown
Jessica Buchanan
Allan Buchman
Susan Burke
Burke O’Neil LLC
Bush is Over! Campaign
Butler Rubin Saltarelli &
Boyd LLP
CAAAV: Organizing
Asian Communities
Socrates Caba
Gemma Calvet
Susan Cameron
Campaign to Promote
Equitable Telephone
Charges (ETC)
Prof Arturo Carillo
Juan Cartagena
Karl Carter
Michael Cates
Catholic Worker Movement
Center for Community
Alternatives
Center for Justice &
Accountability (CJA)
Center for Law &
Social Justice
Center for Reproductive Rights
Prof. Erwin Chemerinsky
Miya Chen
Paul Chevigny
Judith Brown Chomsky
Cindy Chupack
Tink Chupack-Wallach
Citizens United for Rehabilitation
of Errants - New York
Chapter (CURE-NY)
Melanca D. Clark
Rosa Clemente
Coalition for Parole
Restoration (CPR)
Coalition for Women Prisoners
Kendrick Cobb
Code Pink
Tim Coffey
David Cole
Alison Coleman
Columbia Univ Sch of Law
Human Rights Institute
Marie-Agnes Combesque
Community Service Society
Coney Island Ave. Project
Kaitlin Cordes
Jesse Corradi
Correctional Association
Council on American-Islamic
Relations New York Chapter
(CAIR-NY)
Courtney Counts
Covington & Burling
Jeremy Cowan
Jennifer Cowan
Critical Resistance
Rosalina Crotty
Catherine Crump
Culture Project
Lauren Cumbia
Elizabeth Cumming
Curtis Mallet-Prevost, Colt &
Mosle
Rudy and Betty Cypser
Jamil Dakwar
Matt Daloisio
Erin Darling
Neena Das
Rev. Dr. Herbert Daughtry
Ben Davis
Yasmin Davis
Rosalba Davis
Adam Day
Vanessa Stich De Simone
Kyle De Young
Debevoise & Plimpton, LLP
Sharon Delshad
Desis Rising Up and Moving
(DRUM)
Detention Watch Network
Wanda Best Deveaux
Anthony DiCaprio
Karen Dippold
DLA Piper U.S. LLP
Domestic Workers United
Richard Dorn
Drop the Rock
Drug Policy Alliance
Drum Major Institute
Bani Duggal
Dolina Duzant
EarthRights International
(ERI)
Edge of Justice
Matt Eisenbrandt
Edward J. Elder
Eddie Ellis
Sally El-Sadek
Emery, Celli, Brinckerhoff &
Abady LLP
Eve Ensler
Exodus Transitional
Community
Fabulous Independent
Educated Radicals for
Community Empowerment
(FIERCE!)
Richard Falk
Families for Freedom
Families United for Racial
and Economic Equality
(FUREE)
Daphne Farganis
Muhammad Faridi
Rosemary Faulkner
Susan Feathers
Moira Feeney
Maria Ferrin
Walter Fields
Robert F. Fink
Cindy Flowers
Anthony Fonseca
Tina Monshipour Foster

Judith Chomsky has been a donor to CCR and a cooperating attorney on international
human rights cases since the early 1990s when she was introduced to the Center by her friend,
CCR Board member Abdeen Jabara. In particular, Judith was an integral part of the Doe v. Unocal
case that reinforced the use of international law and the ATS, pioneered by CCR, to hold multinational
corporations responsible for human rights violations.
French League for
Human Rights
Jose Louis Fuentes
Elizabeth Gaines
Robert Gangi
Theresa Gheen
Gibbons P.C.
Joan Gibbs
Alex Gibney
Cathe Giffuni
John Gilmore
Leah Gitter
Curt Goering
Lisa Gonzalez
Melissa Goodman
William Goodman
Goodman & Hurwitz
Amanda Gourdine
Michael Gramer
Ashley Grant
Kate Greenwood
Lucy Greer
Colin Greer
Carmine Grimaldi
Theo Grzegorczyk
Guerilla Tactics Media
Haiti Support Network
Harlem Tenants Council
Hastings International
and Comparative
Law Review
Mona Hayat
Joseph Hayden
Anne K. Heidel
Rebecca Heinegg
Simon Heller
Rick Herz
Nellie Hester Bailey
Rev. Diane Hodges
Paul Hoffman
Sarah Hogarth
Rue Hogarth
Jeff Hogue
Tedd Hope
Leah Horowitz
Rebekah Horowitz
Scott Horton
Jane Huckerby
Betsy Iger
Arthur Iger
Institute for the Black World
21st Century
Institute for Urban Education
at the New School
Interfaith Coalition of
Advocates for Reentry
and Employment (ICARE)
International Action Center
International Federation for
Human Rights (FIDH)
International Justice Network
International Solidarity
Movement
Renee Isely
Islamic Circle of North
America (ICNA)
Kim Ives
Abdeen Jabara
Jameel Jaffer
Avi Jaisinghani
Jericho Movement
Mona Jimenez
Kenn John
Cantrell Jones
Judson Memorial Church
Justice Committee
Justice Works Community
Wolfgang Kaleck
Nicholas Kapustinsky
Subhash Kateel
Cheryl Kates
Eliot Katz
Tamara Kempf
Dima Khalidi
Bobby Khan
Yvonne and Jasmine Killebrew
Jane Kim
James Klimaski
Klimaski & Associates
Dan Klotz
Tamar Kraft-Stolar
Ruth Kreinik
Frank Krogh
Patricia Krueger
Kunstler Fund for
Racial Justice
CCR Spotlight
“My work with CCR is about as intellectually interesting as
something can be. I feel personally committed to the politics
of these cases, particularly the corporate responsibility cases.
If only the surrogates are held responsible there’ll always be
another petit dictator there to take their place. It’s only when
you tie the bad behavior in the developing world back to board
rooms in the United States that it puts pressure on the political system. CCR’s work is
especially important to me because the clients are amazing, courageous, generous and
fun to meet. One of the great gifts of doing CCR work is getting to know these people.”
Vivien Labaton
Ray LaForrest
LAS Prisoners Rights Project
Janet Lee
David Lerner
Richard Levy
Levy Ratner, LP
Levy, Phillips &
Konigsberg, LLP
Elizabeth Lewis
Megan Lewis
Thomas Lindsay
Jules Lobel
Jovita Lopez
Dana Lossia
Errol Louis
Lawrence S. Lustberg
Lyrics To Go
MacArthur Justice Center,
Univ of Chicago Law Sch
Antoine Madelin
Sara Mader
Joan Magoolaghan
Moshe S. Maimon
Malcolm X Grassroots
Movement (MXGM)
Arthur Malkin
Joseph Margulies
Randall Marshall
Glenn Martin
Ed Mast
Monami Maulik
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Friends & Allies (continued)
Deepinder Mayell
Judith McDaniel
Stanley McDermott III
Demi McGuire
Shannon McNulty
Pinky Mehta
Carl Messineo
Hope Metcalf
Scott Michelman
Jeanne Mirer
Jenny Montoya-Tansey
Jonathan Moore
Major Dan Mori
Morning-After Pill Conspiracy
C. Zawadi Morris
Morrison & Foerster
Eric Muller
Rafael Mutis
Kotaro Nakai
National Hip Hop Political
Convention
National HIRE Network
National Lawyers Guild
National Lawyers Guild -
Mass Defense Committee
National Lawyers Guild -
NYC Chapter
Neighborhood Defender
Service of Harlem (NDSH)
Merry Neisner
Alice Nelson
Sarah Netburn
New York City AIDS Housing
Network (NYCAHN)
New York Coalition to Expand
Voting Rights
New York Immigration
Coalition
New York Society for Ethical
Culture
NJ Peace Action
NJ Solidarity - Activists for the
Liberation of Palestine
Nodutdol
Gerald Norlander
NY Metro Religious
Campaign Against Torture
NY Taskforce on Political
Prisoners
NYS Defenders Association
NYU Center for Human
Rights & Global Justice
Alexandra Pomeon O’Neill
Ricky and Cheri O’Donoghue
Michael O’Loughlin
Barbara Olshansky
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Yoko Ono
Tom Pacheco
Sailaja Paidipaty
Palestine Solidarity
Committee - Seattle Chapter
Palestinian Center for
Human Rights
Constantina Papageorgiou
Kathy Parker
Partnership for Civil Justice
Jordan Paust
Peoples’ Justice
Francesca Perkins
Kay Perry
C. William Phillips
Steven J. Phillips
Picture the Homeless
Eileen Platt
Miriam Pollet
Deborah Popowski
Michael Poulshock
Prison Families Anonymous
Prison Families Community
Forum (PFCF)
Prison Families of
New York, Inc.
Prison Moratorium Project
Prisoner Re-Entry Institute
Puffin Foundation
Jonathan H. Pyle
Queers for Economic Justice
Nadia Qurashi
Rachel Corrie Foundation
Ellen Range
Merle Ratner
Ratner, DiCaprio &
Chomsky LLP
Redstockings of the Women’s
Liberation Movement
Alex Reinert
Republican Attorney’s Association
(RAV – Germany)
Resistance in Brooklyn
Kate Rhee
Ann Richardson
Rights for Imprisoned People
with Psychiatric Disabilities
(RIPPD)
Rights Working Group
Riptide Communications
Riverside Church
Wayne Roberts
Marion Rodriguez
Ronald A. Peterson Law Clinic
Rossana Rosado
Alan Rosenthal
Robert Ross
Shannon Rozner
Kate Rubin
James Rubin
Visuvananathan
Rudrakumaran
Safe Streets/Strong
Communities
Radhika Sainath
Rahul Saksena
Zeina Salam
Romeo Sanchez
Susan Sarandon
Meg Satterthwaite
Katie Savin
Sadat Sayeed
Gabriel Sayegh
Scheurer & Hardy P.C.
Schomburg Center for
Research in Black Culture
Seattle Univ Sch of Law
Seven Neighborhood Action
Partnership (SNAP)
Katie Schwartzman
Naureen Shah
Aarti Shahani
Julie Shelton
Mara Shlackman
Reggie Shuford
Sikh Coalition
Esmeralda Simmons
Marco Simons
Ayana Simus
Amardeep Singh
Amrit Singh
Lee, Joanne & Jessica Sinovoi
Gwynne L. Skinner
Claudia Slovinsky
Prof. Ronald C. Slye
Alexandra Houston Smith
Carol Sobel
Joshua A. Sohn
Jennifer Sokoler
Sonnenschein, Nath &
Rosenthal
Cynthia Soohoo
Raji Sourani
Southern Legal Counsel
Elizabeth Sperber
Clive Stafford-Smith
Nancy Stearns
Irene Steiner
Beth Stephens
Sarah J. Sterken
Jonathan Stonbely
David Stovall
Nan Strauss
Street Smart Movement
Jeanne Sulzer
David Swanson
Keiko Takayama
Vicky Tartter
Mateo Taussig
RJ Thompson
Margaret Tobin
Katherine Toomey
Gabriel Torres Rivera
Torture Abolition and
Survivors Support Coalition
(TASSC)
Christine Tramantano
Carmen Trotta
United for Peace & Justice
Univ of Pennsylvania Law Sch
Urban Justice Center
Theo Van Boven
Marc Van Der Hout
Karla Vargas
Mara Verheyden-Hilliard
Rima Vesely-Flad
Vietnam Agent Orange Relief
& Responsibility Campaign
Teresa Vitello
Vulcan Society
Carole Wagner
Ian Wallach
Rae Walton
Mariann Meier Wang
War Resisters League
Sean Ward
Evelyn Warren
Michael Warren
Ed Wasserman
Brian Weeks
Len Weinglass
Peter Weiss
Maggie Williams
An-Tuan Williams
WilmerHale
John Wilson
Michael Winger
Witness Against Torture
Women’s Liberation Birth
Control Project
Devyn Wray-Scriven
Ron Yerxa
Haeyoung Yoon
Milton Zelermeyer
Dorothy M. Zellner
Kimberly Zelnick

Guantánamo Habeas Counsel
This year, CCR’s Guantánamo Global Justice Initiative worked with over 500 lawyers and legal workers at over 100 law firms, law
school clinics and other legal organizations who have filed habeas corpus petitions on behalf of Guantánamo detainees. (see pages
34-35 of this report for a list of cases and a description of the project) We thank each and every one of these brave individuals and
organizations for their unflagging commitment to representing their clients at Guantánamo Bay.
Douglas Abbott
Leslie Abrams
Karen Abravanel
Muneer Ahmad
Shireen Ahmed
Elizabeth K. Ainslie
Rafik Aldina
Allen & Overy LLP
Ismail Alsheik
Alston & Bird
Emmanuel Altit
Sarah Altschuller
American Univ. Washington
College of Law International
Human Rights Clinic
Keri Anderson
John P. Anderson
Zerai Araya
Bridget Arimond
Enrique Armijo
Elizabeth Arora
Jehan Aslam
Muneeza Aumir
Baher Azmy
Baach Robinson, &
Lewis, PLLC
Matthew Babcock
Rick D. Bailey
Hissan Bajwa
Baker & McKenzie LLP
Susan Baker Manning
David Baluarte
Scott S. Barker
James W. Beane Jr.
Reagan Beck
Douglas J. Behr
Jonathan S. Bender
Jeff Berger
Ryan T. Bergsieker
Joseph Berman
Mark Berman
Berman & Dowell
Catherine Bernard
David Berz
Bingham McCutchen LLP
Birnberg Pierce & Partners
Jonathan Blackman
Keith Blackman
Ronald Blum
Steven M. Bocknek
Emmet Bondurant
Bondurant, Mixson & Elmore
Louis Bonilla
Guly K. Bositova
Dwight Bostwick
David Bradford
Elizabeth Braverman
Brennan Center for Justice at
NYU School of Law
Thomas Brett
Patricia Bronte
Brooklyn Law School
Karma Brown
Carol Elder Bruce
Lauren Brunswick
Bryan K. Bullock
Edmund Burke
Burke, McPheeters, Bordner,
& Estes
Burns & Levinson, LLP
Antony S. Burt
Mona L. Burton
G. Brian Busey
Christine Bustany
Kelly A. Cameron
Angela Campbell
Charles Carpenter
Bernard J. Casey
Doug Cassel
Anne J. Castle
D. Mark Cave
Anna Cayton-Holland
Center for International
Human Rights
Center for Justice and International
Law, Northwestern
University School of Law
Christopher Chang
Erwin Chemerinsky
Pamela Chepiga
Jennifer Ching
Adam Chiss
Judith Chomsky
Louise Christian
Anthony M. Clark
George M. Clarke
Cleary Gottlieb Steen &
Hamilton LLP
Clifford Chance, LLP
Rachel G. Clingham
Linford Coates
Jerry Cohen
James Cohen
Cohen, Milstein, Hausfeld &
Toll, PLLC
Joshua Colangelo-Bryan
Jeffrey Colman
Columbia University
Jenna Colvin
Timothy Cone
John J. Connolly
Anupama Connor
Lynne Cooper
Benjamin Cooper
Michael Cooper
Stephanie Coste
Covington & Burling LLP
Jennifer Cowan
Douglas Cox
Randy Coyne
Cramer and Minock, PLC
Cori A. Crider
William Crow
Nicole M. Crum
Audrey Cumming
Paul Curnin
Douglas Curtis
David Cynamon
Richard L. Cys
Christine Dahl
Ronald Daignault
George Daly
Jeffrey J. Davis
Davis Wright Tremaine LLP
Debevoise & Plimpton LLP
Dechert LLP
Don Degnan
Ambreen Delawalla
Joshua W. Denbeaux
Mark Denbeaux
Denbeaux & Denbeaux
Denver Lawyers
Matthew Devine
Rebecca P. Dick
David G. Dickman
Dickstein Shapiro LLP
Clare Diegel
James Dillon
Kimberly DiLorenzo
W. Matthew Dodge
Ronan Doherty
Skye Donald
James Dorsey
Dorsey & Whitney LLP
Downs Rachlin Martin PLLC
Brendan Driscoll
Michael W. Drumke
Duke University School
of Law
Theresa M. Duncan
Sarah Dunn
Melissa Durkee
Thomas Anthony Durkin
Durkin & Roberts
Chris Dysard
David East
Armin Eberhard
Edwards Angell Palmer &
Dodge LLP
Buz Eisenberg
David Elbaum
Robert M. Elliot
Elliot Pishko Morgan P.A.
David L. Engerhardt
Connie Ericson
Jeffrey L. Ertel
Esdaile, Barrett & Esdaile
Marc Falkoff
James M. Falvey
George Farah
Farschad Farzan
Federal Defender Office
of South Florida
Federal Defender Program
for the Northern District
of Georgia
Jon Fee
Warren Feldman
Sarah Fels
Benjamin H. Field
Mark Fleming
Martin Flumenbaum
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Guantánamo Habeas Counsel (continued)
Marc Falkoff has been co-counsel with CCR representing 17 Yemeni detainees at
Guantánamo Bay prison camp for several years, both as an associate at a major national firm and
now as a law professor. Beyond his valuable service to his clients and to the concept of justice, what
makes his story unique is his latest project: a just-released collection of poems written by some of the
men held at the camp. Poems from Guantánamo: The Detainees Speak gives voice to those whose
voices had been silenced. In one of the more creative ways that people have supported the Center,
Marc designated the proceeds from the book to go to support CCR’s Guantánamo Global Justice
Initiative.
Murray Fogler
Foley Hoag LLP
Foliart, Huff, Ottaway &
Bottom
Fordham University School of
Law, International Justice
Clinic
Paul T. Fortino
Tina Monshipour Foster
Brian S. Fraser
Fredrikson & Byron PA
Eric M. Freedman
Freedman Boyd Daniels
Hollander Goldberg
& Ives PA
Matthew Freimuth
Scott H. Frewing
Jill Friedman
Agnieszka Fryszman
Fulbright & Jaworski LLP
Robert Galantucci
Reena Gambhir
Avi Garbow
Allen Garrett
Garvey Schubert Barer
Zachary Gelber
Robert A. Gensburg
Gensburg, Atwell & Broderick
John J. Gibbons
Gibbons, P.C.
Gilroy, Kammen & Hill
Elizabeth P. Gilson
Jeffrey Gleason
Emily Goldberg
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Jared Goldstein
George G. Gordon
H. Candace Gorman
KC Goyer
Robert Graham
Jason Green
Eldon V.C. Greenberg
Ayo Griffin
Richard A. Grigg
Nienke Grossman
David Grossman
David Gunn
Harold Gurewitz
Gurewitz & Raben PLC
Abigail Gustafson
Dinh Ha
Jonathan Hafetz
Ordesse Hamad
Suhana S. Han
Matthew Handley
Osman Handoo
Hangley Aronchick Segal &
Pudlin
Daniel Hanifin
Elizabeth Hardy
J. Wells Harrell
Hartmann Doherty Rosa &
Berman, LLC
Harvard Law School
Marcellene E. Hearn
Heller Ehrman LLP
Rene Herzog
David Hickerson
Clark Hodgson Jr.
Melissa Hoffer
Hofstra Law School
John R. Holland
Holland & Hart LLP
Nancy Hollander
Steven Hopper
Hopper and Company Lawyers
Yuri Horwitz
James Hosking
Craig Hoster
Erica L. Hovani
Christopher Huber
Gaillard T. Hunt
Hunton & Williams LLP
Kristine A. Huskey
Varda Hussain
Alex Iliff
Gary Isaac
Sarah Jackel
Ketanji Jackson
Jessica Jacob
Beth D. Jacob
Jeffrey S. Jacobovitz
Michael Jacobs
Meetali Jain
James W. Beane Jr.
Jenner & Block LLP
Tom R. Johnson Jr.
Emily Jolly
Paula Jones
Glenn Jones
Lisa Marie Kaas
Rick Kammen
Steve Kane
CCR Spotlight
“Make no mistake about it – our government is engaging in
a form of ‘lawfare’ in the courts. In the Guantánamo cases,
which CCR has spearheaded for nearly six years, the Bush
administration has sought to undermine the writ of habeas corpus solely to advance its
military goals in our so-called ‘war on terror.’ We can all be thankful that CCR remains
unbowed in its fight to preserve human rights and the rule of law.”
Matthew B. Kaplan
Christopher G. Karagheuzoff
Jason Karasik
David Karp
Ramzi Kassem
Rene Kathawala
Zachary Katznelson
Samuel C. Kauffman
Keller & Heckman LLP
Tara R. Kelly
Patti Kemp
Kimberly Anne Kessler
Christian Khan
Hamid Khan
Mahvish Khan
Darold W. Killmer
Killmer, Lane & Newman, LLP
Kilpatrick Stockton LLP
Rob Kirsch
Daniel Kirschner
Jan Kitchel
Sarah Klee
Donald A. Klein
Jessica Klein
Sarah Knapp
Jason Knott
Neil Koslowe
Kramer Levin Naftails &
Frankel LLP
David Kronenberg
Corwin Kruse
William Kuebler
Philip Lacovara
David J. Laing

Sapna Lalmalani
Joseph Landau
Jeffrey Lang
Darren LaVerne
Lavin, O’Neil, Ricci, Cedrone
& DiSipio
Erika C. Lazar
Paul A. Leder
Karen Lee
Allison Lefrak
Legal Aid of New York
Matthew Leonard
Linda Lerner
Walter Lesnevich
Lesnevich &
Marzano-Lesnevich
Lesser, Newman, Souweine &
Nasser
Jason Leviton
Eric L. Lewis
Amber Lewis
Heather Lewis
Brian Lewis
Emma Lindsay
Greg Lipper
Nikki Livolsi
Elaina Loizou
Rachel Lopez
Ellen Lubell
Cathy Lui
John Lundquist
Lawrence S. Lustberg
J. Triplett Mackintosh
Matthew J. MacLean
Hanna Madbak
Brian D. Maddox
Nauman Malik
Daniel C. Malone
Manatt, Phelps & Phillips LLP
Howard Manchel
Manchel, Wiggins &
Kaye LLP
Henry Lee Mann
Shant Manoukian
Deborah Mantell
Johnathan Margolis
Joe Margulies
Lou Marjon
David S. Marshall
Larry Martin
Alexandria Marzano
Julia Tarver Mason
Tanisha Massie
Edwin S. Matthews
Jonisha Matthews
Mayer Brown LLP
McCarter & English LLP
Bridget McCormack
McDermott, Will & Emery
Tracey McDonald
Stephen P. McFate
Neil McGaraghan
Reginald B. McKnight
Amy J. McMaster
Joseph M. McMillan
Brian Meadors
Brian Mendelsohn
Semra A. Mesulam
Francesca Miceli
Scott Michelman
George Brent Mickum IV
Issa Mikel
John R. Minock
John B. Missing
Nicholas Mitchell
Shams Mitha
Nicole Moen
Lia Monahon
Michael E. Mone
Michael E. Mone Jr.
Christopher Moore
Dan Mori
Morrison & Foerster LLP
Daniel P. Moylan
William E. Murane
William J. Murphy
Richard G. Murphy
Murphy & Shaffer LLC
Arnold Natali
Maya Nath
Brian J. Neff
Joseph Neguse
Mari Newman
William C. Newman
Jill Nickerson
Nixon Peabody LLP
Northern Illinois University
College of Law
Northwestern University
School of Law
Notre Dame Law School,
Center for Civil and Human
Rights
Sophia Nuon
Siham Nurhussein
Scarlett Obadia
Sean O’Brien
W. Scott O’Connell
Matthew O’Hara
Stephen Oleskey
Barbara Olshansky
Joseph O’Neil
Orrick, Herrington &
Sutcliffe LLP
Larry Ottaway
Carolyn Pagliocchini
Andrew Pak
Jonathan Palmer
Chintan Panchal
Charles Patterson
Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton
& Garrison LLP
Pepper Hamilton LLP
Perkins Coie LLP
David Peters
Charles H.R. Peters
Gareth Pierce
Kit Pierson
Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw
Pittman LLP
Jason Pinney
Sarah Pojanowski
Elizabeth Popolis
Cristina Posa
Michael Poulshock
Wesley Powell
Kevin Powers
Adrian Bleifuss Prados
Pryor, Robertwon, Beasley,
Smith & Karber PLLC
Donald Pugilese
E. Theresa Purgason
Robert D. Rachlin
Jana Ramsey
Michael Rapkin
Paul M. Rashkind
Noah Rashkind
Uzma Rasool
Jack Ratliff
Anant Raut
Martha Rayner
Frank C. Razzano
Bina Reddy
Reed Smith LLP
Paul Reichler
Elizabeth Reidy
Nathan Reilly
David Remes
Reprieve
Sara J. Rich
Richards Kibbe & Orbe LLP
Paula Rietzel
Janis D. Roberts
Richard Roberts
Michael W. Robinson
Elizabeth Rodgers
Rodgers, Powers &
Schwartz, LLP
Marcus Rodriguez
Roger Williams University
School of Law
Philip Rohlik
John C. Rothermich
Samuel Rowley
Sylvia Royce
Louis Ruprecht
Ruprecht, Hart & Weeks LLP
Brent Rushforth
Rheba Rutkowski
Diana Rutowski
Peter M. Ryan
Lowell Sachnoff
Seema Saifee
Glenn Salvo
Douglas B. Sanders
Juliet Sarkessian
Mark Sayre
Andrew J. Schaefer
Schiff Hardin LLP
James Schmitz
Schnader, Harrison, Segal &
Lewis LLP
Debra Schneider
Harry H. Schneider
Paul Schoeman
James Schroeder
David Schur
Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt
Harvey Schwartz
Alison L. Sclater
Kristina Scoto
Randolph S. Sergent
Seton Hall Law School Center
for Social Justice
Amanda Shafer
Benjamin S. Sharp
Shearman & Sterling LLP
Patrick Sheldon
Sheri Shepherd
Deming E. Sherman
Jessica Sherman
Laura Shiltz
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Guantánamo Habeas Counsel (continued)
Shook, Hardy & Bacon LLP
Eric W. Sievers
Cary Silverman
Gia Simon
Valerie Simons
Simpson Thacher &
Bartlett LLP
Charles C. Sipos
Michael Siudzinski
David Sleigh
Sleigh & Williams
Marjorie M. Smith
Julia Smith
Sara Smolik
Thomas Snider
John Snodgrass
Ben Snowden
Richard A. Soble
Soble Rowe Krichbaum LLP
Doug Sondgeroth
Lynne Campbell Soutter
Brian C. Spahn
Douglas Spaulding
Mary Spears
Spears & Imes LLP
Spivey & Grigg LLP
Kent Spriggs
Spriggs Law Firm
Sprigs & Hollingsworth
Clive A. Stafford-Smith
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Brent Starks
Rebecca Starr
Adrian Lee Steel
Tara Steeley
Michael J. Sternhell
Stradley Ronon Stevens &
Young, LLP
Jeffrey M. Strauss
Mark S. Sullivan
Patricia A. Sullivan
Thomas Sullivan
Sullivan & Cromwell LLP
Alan Sussman
Sutherland Asbill &
Brennan LLP
Julia Symon
Elizabeth V. Tanis
Asmah Tareen
Alexis Teicher
Doris Tennant
Tennant Lubell, LLC
Fleming Terrell
Gary Thompson
Wade Thomson
A. Katherine Toomey
Marina Trad
Charles M. Travis
Michael W. Trinh
Stephen M. Truitt
Sozi Tulante
Suzanne E. Turner
University of Michigan
Law School Clinical
Law Program
University of Oklahoma
College of Law Center
University of Texas School
of Law
University of Texas School
of Law, Rule of Law in
Wartime Clinic
Andrew Vail
Jill van Berg
Veronica Vela
Venable LLP
Angela C. Vigil
Danielle R. Voorhees
Eliot J. Walker
Terry Walsh
James (Bud) Walsh
Sally Walter
Michael Ward
Steve Wasserman
Hadassa Waxman
Robert C. Weaver, Jr.
Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP
Weinberg & Garber, P.C.
Robert Weiner
Jamie Weitzel
Jason C. Welch
Awards
Lennon Ono Grant for Peace
Presented by Yoko Ono
Gregory Welikson
Carolyn M. Welshhans
William Wertheimer Jr.
Terry West
Cody M. Weston
Michael Whitlock
Kristin B. Wilhelm
Peter Sabin Willett
Jill M. Williamson
WilmerHale
Thomas Wilner
Richard J. Wilson
Elizabeth A. Wilson
Paul Winke
Meghan N. Winokur
Julie Withers
Jo-Anne Wolfson
Abiel K Wong
Elton Wong
Gordon S. Woodward
Jenny Workman
Colin Wrabley
Jeffrey Wu
Yale Law School
Jon R. Zulauf
Zulauf & Chambliss
Lisa B. Zycherman
Letelier-Moffitt Human Rights Award
Presented by the Institute for Policy Studies
Raphael Lemkin Human Rights Award
Presented by Rabbis for Human Rights – North America
Hans Litten Prize
Presented by Democratic Lawyers of Germany
To CCR President Michael Ratner for his work with CCR
Special Recognition for Continuous Dedication
to the Advancement of Human Rights
Presented by the Bahrain Centre for Human Rights

Audited Financial Report July 1 2006 – June 30 2007
Net Assets
Net Assets as of June 30, 2006 $5,029,974
Change in net assets $(75,549)
Net assets as of June 30, 2007 $4,954,425
Revenue, Gains & Other Support
Planned Gifts $149,102
Foundations $3,116,804
Indivdiduals $1,270,471
Court Awards and Attorney Fees $70,303
Rent $1,010
Interest $174,701
Other $56,494
Total Revenue, Gains and Other Support $4,838,885
Expenses
Litigation $2,421,869
Education & Outreach $1,317,626
Administrative & General $656,581
Fundraising $518,358
Total Expenses $4,914,434
For an independent evaluation of our financial health
visit Charity Navigator who gave us a perfect four star rating
at www.charitynavigator.org
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Planned Giving
Our planned giving program forms the bedrock of our efforts to build an endowment. By including CCR in your estate
plan, you can create an institutional legacy to defend the hard-won victories of your lifetime. Thelma Newman Society
members ensure that CCR will be there for the long haul, working to undo the constitutional damage done in the last
10 years and to fight for the rights of the next generation. Please contact us if you have any questions about making a
bequest, endowment, gift annuity or other form of estate gift.
Thelma Newman Planned Giving Society Members
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Vicki Alexander
Evelyn Alloy
Ruth Andrews
Carol Ascher
Ruth Bardach
Philip Bereano
Harvey Blend
Robert Boehm †
Frederick and Betty Briehl
Mary Carr
Marial Delo
Jeffrey Dickemann
George and Minna Doskow
Norman Dreyfuss † and Cathy Dreyfuss
Kay Duffy
Leona Feyer
Albert and Anne Filardo
Curt Firestone
Sol Fisher
Cecily Fox
Mary Geissman
Raymond † and Lise Giraud
Frances Goldin
Ed Goldman and Judith Riven
Ellen and Ellis Harris
John Hayward
Martin and Mildred Hird
Leo Hurvich
Martin and Carolyn Karcher
Gordon Kent
Alfred Knobler
Hilda Knobloch
Elizabeth Landis
Helen Lane
Joan Lewis
Evelyn Lundstrom
Hilda Mason
Alice McGrath
John Wilson studied American history at Philips Exeter Academy in the 1950s with an inspiring
teacher, Henry Bragdon, who sparked Mr. Wilson’s fascination with history, current events,
and helped shape Wilson’s liberal perspective. While there, Wilson acquired great respect for the
U.S. Constitution, and he saw the Civil Rights Movement as the further realization of the principles
enshrined in it. As a long time social justice activist, John Wilson became alarmed with the attack
on constitutional liberties after September 11, 2001, and was particularly impressed when CCR
took up the cases of the Guantánamo Bay prisoners.
Barbara Michael
Joe Morton
James Odling
William Parsons
Mahlon and Lovel Perkins
Dolores Priem
David Rich
Jack Rihn
Doris Shaffer
Rosalie Stahl
Margot Steigman
Joe Stern
Clio Tarazi
Ethel Tobach
Florence Wagner
Peter Weiss
Ginia Wexler
John Wilson
† These gifts were made by donors who passed away this year or made a bequest to CCR which was received this year..
CCR Spotlight
“I was first drawn to CCR because it had the courage to take a
stand and represent the Guantánamo Bay prisoners. Making a
legacy gift to CCR is one way that I can participate in the long
struggle to reclaim what the U.S. government has taken away
in the name of the ‘war on terror.”
—John Wilson, CCR donor and Thelma Newman Planned Giving Society Member

Our Donors July 1 2006 – June 30 2007
We have come a long way since our founders created the Center for Constitutional Rights to provide legal support to
organizations and individuals engaged in the civil rights struggles in the South. But no vision, certainly not one as
ambitious as CCR’s, is realized alone; our donors are the heart of this organization. Without the individuals listed
below, and many many more, our work would have neither the reach nor impact that it does. The cases, projects and
efforts you have read about in this report are made possible because you have joined with us in the fight. It is with great appreciation
that we recognize our partners and supporters.
Founders Circle g i f t s o f $1000 a n d a b o v e
$500,000 and above
The Atlantic Philanthropies (USA)
$100,000 and above
Anonymous
The CS Fund/Warsh-Mott Legacy
The Ford Foundation
The HKH Foundation
The Oak Foundation
The Vanguard Charitable
Endowment Program
$50,000 – $99,999
Anonymous
The Arca Foundation
Vita Barsky †
George and Minna Doskow
The Funding Exchange National
Community Funds
The JEHT Foundation
Elizabeth S. Landis
The Lennon Ono Grant for Peace
Madison Community Foundation
Richard and Marilyn Mazess
Katherine and David Moore
Yoko Ono
The Open Society Institute
The Ratner Family
The Ritter Foundation
The Tides Foundation
The Wallace Global Fund
$25,000 – $49,999
Anonymous
Hisham Altalib
The Angelina Fund
George and Beverly August
Jamal Barzinji
The Charles Evans Hughes
Memorial Foundation
† These gifts were made by donors who passed away this year
or made a bequest to CCR which was received this year..
The Common Counsel Foundation
Victor and Lorraine Honig
International Institute of
Islamic Thought
Jingo Foundation
The Libra Foundation
The David and Katherine Moore
Family Foundation, Inc.
Zella Luria
Nancy Meyer and Marc Weiss
Rotonda Foundation
The Samuel Rubin Foundation
The Scherman Foundation, Inc.
Robert Schwartz †
Shrewsbury Foundation
Samuel Wiener Jr.
Working Assets Funding Service
$10,000 – $24,999
Anonymous
The Jewish Communal Fund
The Alfred and Jane Ross Foundation
Eric and Cindy Arbanovella
Laurie Arbeiter and Jennifer Hobbs
Carol Ascher and Robert Pittenger
Lois Baker †
The Bardon-Cole Foundation
John Bernstein
The Blue Oak Foundation
The Charitable Gift Fund
The Christopher Reynolds Foundation
Sandra Coliver
Norman Dreyfuss † and Cathy Dreyfuss
Thomas Durst
The Epstein Philanthropies
Fidelity Charitable Gift Fund
The Firedoll Foundation
The Fritz Pappenheim Fund
of the Tides Foundation
Leo and Sherry Frumkin
Richard and Carolyn Glickstein
John and Kathryn Greenberg
The Grodzins Fund
Scott D. Handleman
George Harrison †
The Helena Rubinstein Foundation
John B. Henry
Emily Honig
Iara Lee and George Gund III
Foundation
Institute of International Education
Cassim and Chung Ja Jadwat
The Jewish Communal Fund
Gordon D. Kent
The Liberty Hill Foundation
The Max and Anna
Levinson Foundation
The Meijer & Klaber Families
Memorial Fund
Holly Myers and Kirk Neely
The New York Community Trust
The New-Land Foundation
Abigail Norman
The Normandie Foundation
Alfred Ross
Albert Ruben
Louis Slesin
The Spingold Foundation
Jean Stein, JKW Foundation
The Taub Family Foundation
The Vital Projects Fund, Inc.
Ian Wallach and Cindy Chupack
The William B. Wiener, Jr. Foundation
John H. Wilson
Irving and Evelyn Wolfe
Howard Zucker
$5,000 – $9,999
Anonymous
Franz and Marcia Allina
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CCR Donors
Joan Antonucci †
Benjamin Berg Family Trust †
Benjamin and Hazel Mae Berg †
The Bernard F. and Alva B.
Gimbel Foundation
Jean-David Beyer
David and Ellen Block
Ida G. Braun
Bernie J. Casey
Charles Crane and Wendy Breuer
The Elizabeth M. Gitt Foundation
James and Louise Frankel
The Friendship Fund
Mary J. Geissman
Gould Family Foundation
Marion Greene
Evelyn Yee and Randall D. Holmberg
Lisa Honig
The Jeannette and H. Peter Kriendler
Charitable Trust
John Carroll University
Joseph & Sally Handleman Foundation
William D. Kirby
Frederick and Emily Kunreuther
Barry and Paula Litt
Jules Lobel
Louis Lowenstein
Tom W. Lyons
Vincent McGee
Rachel Mustin
Max and Nicole Newman
Henry Norr
The Overbrook Foundation
The Philanthropic Collaborative
Claudette Piper
Steve and Carolyn Purcell
Ralph E. Ogden Foundation, Inc.
Amelie L. Ratliff
Mark and Nancy Ratner
Ronald and Deborah B. Ratner
Reed Smith LLP
Margaret and Henry Reuss
Stuart A. Rockefeller
Eric and Fiona Rudin
The San Francisco
Foundation
Schwab Fund for
Charitable Giving
Alfred H. Schwendtner
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Seymour & Sylvia Rothchild Family
2004 Charitable Foundation
Donald and Doris Shaffer
Silicon Valley Community Foundation
Douglas Spaulding
Clive A. Stafford-Smith
Adam and Jane Stein
Lynn S. Stern
Beatrice Stern
Josephine A. Willard †
Chic Wolk
Edith and Marjorie Ziefert
$2,500 – $4,999
Anonymous
Daniel Alterman and Li Wah Lai
Rita and William Bender
Ara Bernardi
Gene C. Bernardi
Maryalice Bigham-Hughes
Miriam Buhl
The Chicago Community Foundation
Timothy Coffey
Community Foundation of New Jersey
Kathryn Dowling
Shiva Eftekhari
Norman Eisner and Zelda Aronstein
Evan Fales
Rosemary Faulkner
Louis Fisher
Ronald Force †
Franklin E. and Alice Fried
The Fund for Southern Communities
James and Bettie Hannan
Lynne Henderson
William and Virginia Hildebrand
John Hoffmeyer and Janet M. Corpus
Jewish Community Federation
of Cleveland
The John D. and Catherine T.
MacArthur Foundation
The Key Foundation
Rochelle Korman
Seymour Krauth †
William Lankford
Eileen and Paul Le Fort
Timothy J. Lee and Eleanor McBride
Joan Lewis
Eric L. Lewis
Ramsay MacMullen
John and Martha Marks
Rob McConnell and Maria DeCastro
Patricia F. Mullahy
Mary and Benjamin Page
Richard L. Pearlstone
Lawrence and Janet Rivkin
Alex and Carole Rosenberg
Kyla and Ethan Ryman
Edwin E. Salpeter and
Antonia L. Shouse
Wallace M. Shawn
Charles Sikorovsky
Morton Sobell and Nancy Gruber
Richard A. Soble and Barbara L. Kessler
Swann Galleries, Inc.
Merry Tucker
George Wallerstein
Walter & Elise Haas Fund
Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP
The Wyss Family Foundation
Ellen Yaroshefsky
Barbara A. Zeluck
Michael Zweig and Kathy Chamberlain
$1,000 – $2,499
Anonymous
Adriana Alberghetti
Halima Al-Hassan
Salam Al-Rawi
Theresa F. Alt
Alan and Donna Altschuler
Nabil and Ann Amer
Janet S. Arnold and Michael H. Rubin
The Arthur & Henrietta A. Sorin
Charitable Trust
Emily S. Attwell, Attwell Foundation
Judy Austermiller and Warren Betty
James A. and Beate K. Becker
Charles and Leslie Berger
Matthew A. Berlin and Simone Liebman
Bernard Stern Family Trust
Jose F. and Francella W. Betancourt
Raghu K. and Sushma Bhardwaj
Alexis Bleich
Emmet J. Bondurant
Laura J. Borst
The Boston Foundation
Martin Brod
† These gifts were made by donors who passed away this year
or made a bequest to CCR which was received this year..

Ian Michael Wallach and Cindy Chupack are proud supporters of the Center.
Cindy is an award-winning writer and executive producer, best known for her work on HBO’s Sex
and the City. Ian is currently an L.A. County Deputy Public Defender, but prior to starting that job, he
represented three Guantánamo Bay detainees in connection with CCR’s Guantánamo Global Justice
Initiative. In 2006 in New York, Cindy and Ian hosted their first fundraiser for CCR, “Cheese, Chocolate
and Chipping In,” and later hosted an elaborate party this summer in Los Angeles. Thanks to Ian and
Cindy, CCR now has 80 new friends in the entertainment industry as well as public interest lawyers and
other people who care about social change.
Judith and Don Broder
Peter and Alice Broner
Allan and Muriel Brotsky
Tara A. Caffrey and Jeffrey J. Vroom
Steve Callas
John Caruso
Peter and Lucia Case
Waifun B. Chan and Kurt Breuninger
John A. Chandler and Elizabeth V. Tanis
Laura and Richard Chasin
Victor H. Chechanover
The Columbus Foundation
The Community Foundation
of Santa Cruz
Community Foundation of Western
Massachusetts
David B. Cone and Kellie Stoddart
Rhonda Copelon
Michael Cowing
Robert A. Cunningham
E. Patrick Curry and Susan B. Campbell
Norman Danner
The David and Sylvia Teitelbaum
Fund, Inc.
Emily Deferrari and Mel Packer
Madeline deLone and Bobby Cohen
Michelle J. DePass
Roger Dittmann
Michael Donkis
James Donnell
Kevin Donovan
Daniel and Lee Drake
Mark Drake
Martin J. Dreyfuss
Rodney and Carole Driver
Robert Dubrow
Paul and Susan Durrant
Diane Early and Daniel Gigone
Margaret L. Eberbach
The Edward W. Hazen Foundation
Elsberg Family Foundation
Ari Emanuel
Endeavor Agency
Wallace and Heike Eubanks
Robert M. Factor
Fein Foundation
Frederic J. Feingold
Gena Feist
Robert Fenichel
Robert Fertik
Daniel and Anita Fine
Robert Fodor and Thurid Clark
Mike Forter
Robert A. Friedman
Amanda H. Frost
Kit and Steven Gage
Lola and Isaiah Gellman
General Board of Global Ministries,
Women’s Division
The George Lichter Family Foundation
Daniel Gillmor
Sherna and Marvin Gluck
CCR Spotlight
Cindy says, “Writing, for me, has always been a way to get
people’s attention and make a difference, and I love that
Center for Constitutional Rights does the same thing with the
law. I’m fed up with this administration and happy to support
an organization that is using the law creatively to get America back on track.
These are challenging times for our country, and CCR is up for the challenge.”
Ian, Cindy and their
St. Bernard rescue, Tink
Frances Goldin
Janice Goodman
Jane Gould
Holly B. Gray
Arrel T. Gray
Frank and Judith Greenberg
Lynn Greiner and John Midgley
Paul Haas
Collier Hands
Hildegarde K. Hannum
Lisa Harrison
The Helen Keeler Burke Charitable
Foundation
Nathan Hershey
Greg Hodes
Christopher W. Hornig and
Nancy J. Garruba
David and Susan Horowitz
Ruth Hubbard
Human and Civil Rights Organizations
of America
Renate D. Hunter
Steven Hyman
Abdeen M. Jabara and Holly Maguigan
Kenneth M. Jones
Joseph Rosen Foundation
William H. Josephson
Morton C. and Merle R. Kane
Terry Karl
Ira G. Kawaller
Ernest and Nancy Keet
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CCR Donors
Martin Kenner and Camilla Smith
Jerry Kickenson
Joyce Kirschner and Richard S. Aronson
Joanne Kliejunas and Irving Lubliner
Marily Knieriemen
Joanna Knobler
Alfie Kohn
Melodee Kornacker
Merle and Phyllis Krause
Michael Krinsky
Edward M. Krishok and Peggy K. Hong
Mary and Ulrich Kruse
Joseph B. Kruskal
Roger and Belle Kuhn
James Kwak
Mitch Lau
Judy Lerner
Mark L. Levine and Stephanie
von Hirschberg
George and Ann Levinger
Judith Lichtenberg and David J. Luban
Mark Lopez
Matthew J. MacLean
Susan E. Manuel
Hubert and Rachelle Marshall
William G. Mascioli
Robert and Ellen Meeropol
Juliet A. Melamid
Carson A. Miller
Mahmoud and Laila Mohamed
Helen R. Moore
Richard and Barbara Moore
Richard A. Moran
Scott Morgan
Richard and Kathe Morse
Brian J. Neff
Jill W. Nelson and Thomas R. Bidell
The New Prospect Foundation
Colette Newman
Nancy J. Newman and Mark Walstrom
Louie D. Nikolaidis and
Rachel Horowitz
Michael O. Nimkoff
The O Live Fund
Eve Pell
Mahlon and Lovel Perkins
Barbara B. Perkins
Hanna Pitkin
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Miriam Pollet
Anne Posel
Frances R. Posel
Florence B. Prescott
Priscilla J. McMillan Revocable Trust
Frances Rachel
Robert and Patricia Ralph
Brian J. Ratner
Doris E. Reed
Kenneth Reiner
Jennie Rhine and Tom Meyer
Jim Roberts and Patricia Calberson
Wayne Roberts
John and Fredelle Robinson
William L. and Sandra L. Rosenfeld
Joseph L. Ruby
Gladys Rustay
Jack Sawyer
Daniel P. Scharlin
Julie Schecter
Robert E. Schoen and Nancy Bernstein
William and Katherine Schrenk
Edwin and Joan Brodsky Schur
Susan Scott
William Seaman
Steve Seltzer
Elizabeth and Stephen Shafer
Peter and Elizabeth Shepherd
Albert D. Shuldiner and Emily B. Myers
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher,
& Flom LLP
Emily Spieler and Gregory Wagner
Kent Spriggs
Barbara Starfield and Neil A. Holtzman
Nancy Stearns
Mildred B. Stout
Clayton A. Struve
Susan Susman
Alan Sussman
Clio Tarazi
Richard Teitelbaum
Hugh R. Tobin
Melvin and Marjorie Traylor
James S. Tyre
Robert Vitarelli
Terry L. Wade
Barbara Webster
Daniel Weiss and Anne Stewart
Muriel M. Weissman
Stanley S. Weithorn
Richard Weitz
The Wheelchair Project
Sabin and Martha Willet
The Winky Foundation
Sherri Wolf
Darryl M. Wood and Helene T. Wollin
Deandrea Woods
Workable Alternatives Foundation
Michael D. Yokell
Patrick Young and Junko M. Kunitake
Susan Zawel
$500 – $999
Anonymous
A & J Saks Foundation, Inc.
Leslie Abbey
Stephen and Virginia Abrams
Ethel G. Ackley
Alice K. Ada
Victor Aguiler
Arun Alagappan
Cathy Albisa
Ethan D. and Sandra D. Alyea
Thomas E. and Donna Ambrogi
Grace B. Anderson
Stuart H. Anderson
Bert and Barbara Aubrey
Shane Baggs
Baker & McKenzie LLP
Baltimore Community Foundation
James M. Bergin and Ellen Lukens
Andrew J. and Nancy C. Scerbo
Berlinger
Peggy Billings
Craig D. Blackmon and Tiffany
McDermott
Robert Boehm †
George and Eleanor Bollag
Beth Marie Bonora and Michael Laine
Kevi P. Brannelly
Martin D. Branning
Belinda B. Breese
Evelyn J. Bromet
Richard J. Brown
John Callas
Tim Caro
† These gifts were made by donors who passed away this year
or made a bequest to CCR which was received this year..

Miriam Pollet: A long-time financial supporter of CCR, Miriam Pollet became an integral part
of CCR’s work this year when she starting volunteering 15 hours each week to help fill requests from
incarcerated individuals for legal support and copies of CCR’s Jailhouse Lawyer’s Handbook: How to
Bring a Federal Lawsuit to Challenge Violations of Your Rights in Prison. A retired librarian, Miriam has
brought her sharp eye for detail and patience to the project, allowing CCR to more fully respond to
the hundreds of letters received each month from those incarcerated individuals around the country—
whose rights are violated on a daily basis.
“I myself have profited from volunteering at CCR and have the
satisfaction of helping, in whatever small way, those who are
desperately crying out for help.”
Ira Carp
CAUSE
Hope Cobb
Asho I. Craine
Carlyle and Grace Crecelius
Mohammed and Marcia F. Daoudi
Dayton Foundation Depository
Peter De Rege and Alison Hyslop
Lindsay Dearborn
Arthur W. Douville, Jr.
Lewis and Edith Drabkin
Alan and Susan S. Dranitzke
Kingston and Liz Schwerer Duffie
Carol J. Eagle
Norman C. Eddy and
Rebecca Feuerstein
Susan L. Einbinder
Steven and Deborah Elkinton
Simon J. Klein and Lenore Feigenbaum
Ed and Ann A. Ferguson
Joan M. Ferrante
Gregory Finger and Joan Hollister
Jon Finkel
Paul D. Fogel and Ventura Y. Chalom
Donald K. Larkin and Maria C. Freeman
Joshua Frost
Ronald E. Garrett
General Board of Global Ministries
Maxine S. Goad
Waleed K. and Hannah Gosaynie
Claire Gottfried
Margaret M. and Patrick P. Grace
The Gravestar Foundation
Daniel Greenberg and Karen Nelson
Allen and Nancy Greenleaf
Simon Greer and Sharna G. Goldseker
Dwight Hahn
Guy M. Harris
Rachel J. Harris
Julester S. Haste
Marjorie Heins
Peter N. Heller
Robert and Claire Heron
Joseph Herron and Patricia Baird
Charles Hey-Maestre
Martin and Mildred Hird
Honeybee Foundation
Richard R. Howe
Caedmon Irias
Harold M. Isbell
Per R. Jacobson and Elizabeth L. Wilson
Omar C. Jadwat
Roberta Jaffe
Klaus W. Jentschura
Jewish Community Endowment Fund
Marc E. Johnson
Lisa Johnston
Jessica Jones
Henry S. Kahn and Mary Gillmor-Kahn
James M. and Andrea M. Kane
Steven Kanig
Martin and Carolyn Karcher
Patrice Kaska
Barbara and John Kennedy
Charles and Anna Kerstein
Nobal E. and Martha E. King
Donald and Margaret Kioseff
David Klem
Robert L. Kort
Philip Kramer
CCR Spotlight
Fred P. and Beverly P. Krasner
Fayette F. Krause
Neal and Karin Kunstler Goldman
Greg Kuykendall
Barb Lee
Tom Lehrer
Phillip and Elsa Lichtenberg
Richard and Rita Lipsitz
Robin Lloyd
George F. Loewenstein and
Donna Harsch
Sivia W. Loria
M. Brinton Lykes and Catherine M.
Mooney
Shirley Magidson
Maine Community Foundation
Mamlouk Trading Corp.
Elena S. Manitzas
Robert C. Mashman
Warren and Joyce Mathews
Alice McGrath
Barbara J. Meislin
Michael and Heli Meltsner
Clotilde P. de Ramos Mimoso and
Maricarmen Ramos de Szendrey
Albert Mishan
Katherine Navarrete
Gloria Newman
Sala Nolan
John Crow and Wendy R. Olesker
Lisa Oppenheim and
Steven K. Rothschild
Eric Orlin
Martin Orner
Isabelle C. Osborne
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CCR Donors
Stuart Ozer and Sumi Hoshiko
Caroline M. B. Paul
Alexandra Paul
Perforce Foundation
Gloria C. Phares and Richard Dannay
Stephen C. and Sharon I. Plumeri
Suzanne Polen
Nancy R. Posel
Marshall and Rosie Potamkin
The Presbyterian Foundation
Roger Pugh
Shankar Ramamoorthy
Tina L. Rasnow
Charles and Ilana Horowitz-Ratner
James and Susan Ratner
Julie B. Rauch
Shaheen Rehman and Janice C. Rehman
The Richard R. Howe Foundation
Justine Roberts
John H. Rodgers
Jill and Ronald Rohde
Barbara and Oren Root
Eve S. Rosahn and Marion Banzhaf
Lynn Rosen
Rolf and Elizabeth Rosenthal
Sybil Sage
Naomi Sager
Arnold S. Saks
Brian Sandlin
Alan Schiffmann
Leon F. Seltzer
Evan D. and Janet Shaad
Beth Shamrock
Alix K. Shulman and Scott York
Aaron M. Shure
Dorothy Slater-Brown
Daniel Sleator
Michelle D. Smith
James M. Sober
Rebecca Solnit
John Spragens, Jr.
Norton and Irene Starr
The Stonbely Family Foundation
Alice Sturm Sutter
Lucy Suchman
Ronald J. Tabak
Murray Tobak
Jean Toche
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Charles F. Turner
Richard and Gail Ullman
Victor and Barbara Ulmer
University of Redlands
Marc and Jodie LeWitter Van der Hout
Steven Vogel and Jane Henderson
Colton P. Wagner
Julia and James Wallace
Daniel F. Wallowitz
Barry J. and Abby Wark
Cecille Wasserman
Michael S. and Susan F. Weiner
Alan Weiner and Nancy Maizels
Dolores Welty
Jeffrey and Lucinda Wilner
Anne C. Wilson
Judith Wilson and Alec Wysoker
Barbara J. Winne
Ernest and Roswitha Winsor
James K. Wolford, Jr.
Robert and Blaikie Worth
Frank O. Wyse
Ann Yasuhara
Mitchell H. and Jane Zimmerman
$250 – $499
Anonymous
120 W. 70th Owners Corp.
Milton Abelson
Robert and Miriam Abramovitz
Merritt and Barbara Abrash
The ADCO Foundation
Michelle and Bernard Aisenberg
Salah and Catherine Al-Askari
Jane Alexander
Nicholas Allen and
Stacie Hammersberg
Teresa Amott
Mark L. Amsterdam
Ruth Andrews
The Ankner Family Charitable
Foundation
Barbra Apfelbaum and Michael Reuveni
Barbara Armento
George S. and Jill S. Avrunin
Rebecca Bakunin
John Barth
Myron Beldock and Karen Dippold
Mary Belenky
Douglas J. Bender and Emma B. Trejo
Ruth G. and Carl S. Benson
William Bernell
Murray and Elena J. Berrie
Bethesda Friends Meeting:
Religious Society of Friends
Bani Bhattacharya
Helga K. Bilik
Constance and David C. Borde
Eric Boucher
Robert J. Boyle
Jacqueline Boynton
Lila Braine
Brad and Liana Brooks-Rubin
Robert E. L. and Sylvie M. Brown
Carole R. Brown
Alison Buck
Pearl Buckland
Stefan Budac
Terry Bunker
James A. Burger and Jennifer L. Klein
Renee Cafiero
Wes Callender
Calvert Social Investment Foundation
Ken and Peg Champney
Ellen P. Chapnick and Bill Schleicher
Ava Cheloff
Renee D. Chotiner and
Stuart W. Gardner
Douglas and Ann Christensen
Church Of The Epiphany
Johnson H. Clark
Wallace B. Cleland
Myron and Nancy Cohn
Avern Cohn
Virginia and Douglas Cole
The Community Church of New York
Unitarian Universalist
Community Service Society
of New York
Farok J. Contractor
Mary Ellen Copeland and
Edward Anthes
Jason M. Cox
Barbara Cuneo and Alan Kesselhaut
John and Diane Dalsimer
Ron D. Daniels

Ivey Walton: A member of Prison Families Community Forum, Ivey first came to CCR several
years ago when she attended one of the first organizing meetings for CCR’s New York Campaign for
Telephone Justice. Living on a fixed income, Ivey has been unable to speak with her incarcerated son
on a regular basis for twelve years. Ivey eventually became the named plaintiff in CCR’s class action
lawsuit challenging these egregious overcharges, Walton v. NYSDOCS and MCI. Since the filing of the
lawsuit in 2004 and the launch of the New York Campaign for Telephone Justice, Ivey has been an
integral part of CCR and a tireless advocate for her son and for other family members who face high
phone bills and the unenviable choice of choosing between financial debt and speaking with their
loved one—all as a result of the prison telephone contract. This year, Ivey traveled to the New York
Supreme Court and New York Court of Appeals to see CCR Staff Attorney Rachel Meeropol make oral
arguments on her behalf.
“CCR has been very supportive of me in my struggle against MCI. In fact,
they are like family to me.”
Jeffrey J. Davis
Sidney and Selma Davis
Donald A. and Mary Jane Dean
Will Denham
Bindu Desai
Stuart Desser
Matt M. Diaz
J. K. Donnelly and Catherine M. Bishop
Larry D. Doores and Janet R. Wolfe
Sean C. Doyle
Anne Draper
Barry and Ismartilah Drummond
Ronald and Ellen Duncan
Gary Dunn
H. Stewart Dunn, Jr.
David B. Dunning
Aris N. Economides
Camille Ehrenberg
Michael Ehrlich
Michael Tanzer and Hester Eisenstein
Laurel Eisner and Eugene Eisner
Fanita English
Warren H. Esanu
Samuel Eskenazi
Traci L. Ext
Samer A. and Lisa D. Bevilacqua Faraj
Diane Farsetta
A. B. Fields
Belden Fields
Dolly Filartiga and Diego Calles
Erica G. Foldy
Connie Foote and David Mitchell
Nancy E. Frank
Judith and Louis Friedman
David F. Funkhouser
Cynthia Gallagher and Shaun Manchand
Maggie A. Geddes
Edward I. Geffner
Sheila Geist
Martin Gellert
Margo R. George and Catherine Karrass
Patricia A. German
Arleen Glenn
Kayla E. Gluck
Jeffrey Gold
Harriet S. Goldberg and
Gregory C. Johnson
Robert and Irene Goldman
Jean R. Goldman
James E. Gonzales, II
Emily J. Goodman
Suzanne E. Goodman
Edmund W. and Susan G. Gordon
Marcelle Greenfield
Leonard L. Grossman
Kathy Gruber and Fred Levy
Karen W. Guzak
Hans C. and Linda Haacke
Kathleen Hager and
Arthur A. Wasserman
David Harbater
Sheldon and Margery Harnick
Wat Stearns J. Harris
Jed Hartman
Paul Hathaway and Lynda Dailey
Joseph J. Heath
CCR Spotlight
Dick S. Heiser
Russell K. Henly and Martha L. Turner
Edward and Mary Herman
Betty and Jackson Herring
Steven C. Hill and Jonathan Herz
Hans Himelein
Zach and Sadie Honey Hochstadt
Robert and Charlene Hornick
Allen M. Howard
Stephen J. Hrinya
Raymond A. Hrycko
Jason Husgen
J. Leon Israel, Jr.
Jewish Fund for Justice
Norman I. Johnson
Warren Jones and Marian Gee
Jeffrey A. Jones
Lee Joseph
Mark S. Kamlet and Charlee M. Kamlet
Jay M. Kappraff
Aslam Karachiwala
Caryn B. Kauffman
Mark Kempson
Judy K. Kern
Alka Khushalani
Hilda Knobloch
Max and Joyce Kozloff
George and Carla S. Krupanski
Robert E. and Francoise Kulp
Robert P. Kunreuther
Steve P. LaBash
Matthew D. LaHaye
John W. and Claudia Lamperti
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Sidney Landau
Chuck Lapine and Rae Lapine
Meredith Le Goff
Linda Lee and Charles Lamb
John and Sue Leonard
Daniel K. K. Leong
Judy Lessing
Ida J. Lewenstein
David R. Lewis
Emily M. Lindell
John R. Long
Mary W. Lunt
Lisa Magarrell
Jerome H. Manheim
Richard E. Manning, Jr.
James A. Margolis
William and Judith Matchett
Marc and Barbara Mauer
Peter J. Mayer
Jennifer Meeropol
Martin and Margaret Melkonian
Pamela M. Merchant and
Kirby Sack
Messing, Rudavsky & Weliky
Michael Messinger
Edee and Jack Mezirow
Sara Miles
Marvin and Marline Miller
Rod Miller-Boyer
Millsaps College
Mae K. Millstone
Elliot G. Mishler and Victoria A. Steinitz
Janice L. Mitchell
Jerilyn Montgomery
Stephen Morris
Ann M. and Donald M. Morrison
Thomas V. Muller
Georgiana E. Foster and
Robert C. Murphy
Mariel Nanasi and Jeffrey H. Haas
Reece E. Newman
NY Charities.Org
Kevin L. Oberdorfer
Craig Oettinger
Olaf S. and Sondra S. Olsen
Gail Pakalns
David Perk
Dorothy Z. Peters
Charlotte Phillips and Oliver Fein
Sandra Polishuk
John G. and Barbara Polk
Stephen Pomerance
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CCR Donors
Isabel R. Potter
Alan Rabinowitz
Margaret J. Randall and Barbara Byers
Marcus Rediker and Wendy Z. Goldman
Jeffrey C. and Bettiann Reese
The RMF Foundation
Roberta Roban
Steven D. Robinson
R. A. Rock
George S. Rothbart and Ingrid
Scheib-Rothbart
Richard and Melissa Salten Rothman
Mary C. Rower
Howard D. Sacks
The Saint Paul Foundation
Robert Schaibly and Steven Sorla
Gordon Schiff and Marge Cohen
Deborah Schifter and
Alan Schiffmann
Steven A. and Janet H. Schneider
Ruth and Charles Schultz
Keith Schwab
Robert Schwab
Karen Shatzkin and Michael E. Breecher
Anthony Shih
Donald A. Shipley
Ann and Ahmad Shirazi
Victor W. Sidel and Ruth Sidel
Franklin Siegel
Andrea Simon
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP
Beth J. Singer
Carl and Jane Smith
Stephen S. Smith
Lindsay R. Smith
Russell Smith
Carol Smith and Joe Esposito
Carolyn Sonfield
Anthony Spillane
Erwin and Pearl Staller
Peter D. Stansky
Ben Stavis and Marjatta Lyyra
David Steichen
Elliot G. Mishler and Victoria A. Steinitz
Ian E. Stockdale
Andrew M. Stone
Elizabeth Strout
Gita Sud and Rob Aitken
Richard P. Sutter
Devon K. Svarda
Rosalie Swedlin
Harold Taggart
CCR Donors
David Tanzer
Thomson West
Joseph and Cornelia Tierney
Kenneth E. Tilsen
Randall H. Trigg and Caitlin Stanton
Barbara and Franklin Turner
David B. Turner
Tamara Saimons and
Kathryn Turnipseed
Robert Twombly
Scott L. Tyler and Marilyn Imura
Stephen F. Vause and Carlyn Syvanen
The Vermont Community Foundation
Susan von Arx
Carolyn Walker
Francis M. Walters
Jennifer Warburg
Joan M. Warburg
Bernhard Weimer
Edmund and Mary Weingart
Adam N. Weinstein
Henry Werner and Holly Thau
Sue and Philip Wheaton
Brian White
Richard Wiebe
Sarah S. Willie
Barbara Winslow
Stephen and Bettina Winter
Lincoln and Wilma
Wolfenstein
Neville Woodruff
Richard K. Worthington
Eitan K. Yanich
Harry S. Hochheiser and
Judith Yanowitz
Steven J. Yellin
Sandra A. Zagarell
Thomas Zaslavsky
George and Sondra Zeidenstein
Robert J. Zelnick
Over $100 – $249
Anonymous
Emily Achtenberg
Emory and Marilyn Ackley
The Agape Foundation
Harold Ahrens
Greg J. Albertson and
Melissa Frumin
Jess L. Alford
Paul J. Allen
Deborah Allen

Sadat Sayeed: “Long before the documented abuses at Guantánamo began to sway American
opinion, many Europeans were looking on in displeasure,” says Sadat Sayeed, a visiting attorney
at CCR in 2006. Sadat received Britain’s prestigious Pegasus Fellowship to work at CCR for three
months. Shockingly, he was detained at the airport for several hours by the Department of Homeland
Security before he was grudgingly released. After he arrived at our offices, he was involved in drafting
the Center’s submissions to the United Nations’ Committee Against Torture and Human Rights
Committee on the USA’s compliance with international conventions. Sadat is a barrister at Garden
Court Chambers in London, one of the leading human rights barrister’s chambers in the U.K.
He remains involved in efforts to close Guantánamo.
Carol Allen
William C. Altham
Norman Altstedter
The American Baptist Churches
of Massachusetts
Stephen C. and Betty A. Anderson
Andrew M. Ansorge and
Laura S. Koopman
R. S. Anthony
Sona Aronian
Bob Bamman
Michael H. Bancroft and
Victoria A. Curry
Rainer C. Baum
Will Beatty
Michael Beer
Marvin L. Bellin
Howard A. and Estelle Bern
Arthur and Anne Berndt
Stephanie G. and Jacob G. Birnberg
Robert L. Black, Jr.
Alison Blackduck
Carol Bloom
Joan and Jack Botwinick
Robert and Jeanne R. Boynton
John A. and Geraldine M. Brittain
Jeanne Bronstein
Gregory P. Brown
Thomas W. Browne
Dorelen F. and Emily Bunting
Arthur and Alice Burks
Harry A. Caddow, Jr.
Desmond Callan and
Georgene A. Gardner
Blair and Josephine Campbell
Penelope J. Campbell
Roseann and Robert A. Campbell
Michael Cavanaugh
Hilary Caws-Elwitt
Mortimer H. Chambers, Jr.
Gordon A. Chapman
Judith Chomsky
Nina W. Chong
James and Roshan Christensen
Damon A. Clark
Serena Clayton
Marilyn B. Clement
Court Cline
John E. and Penelope D. Clute
Joanne M. Collier
Matthew T. Colvard
Janet M. Conn
Juliette R. and Micaela S. Corazon
Wiliam C. Cromwick
Joanne and Eli Curi
Claire S. Davidson
Richard A. Denison
Robert and Susan Deutsch
Gerald Dickinson
Jane E. Donaldson
Shelby Drescher
Barbara L. Dudley
Lloyd Duren
Charles and Lois B. Edwards
Colin Eisler
Brad P. Engdahl and Patricia L. Layton
Margie R. Eucalyptus and
M. A. McFadden
CCR Spotlight
“My time at CCR was an unforgettable experience, and I
continue to draw great inspiration and strength from the work
of my colleagues there. In the context of the post 9/11 world in which we live,
CCR’s ongoing presence as a champion of fundamental human rights is essential.”
Hossam E. and S. H. Fadel
Jeffrey A. Fagan and
Connie S. Fishman
Harriet A. Feinberg
Solomon Fisher
Stuart M. Flashman
Anne E. Flynn
Steve Frankel
Jane and Howard Franklin
Barbara Friedberg
Florence Friedman
Tom Friend
Derek T. Frost
Michiko Fukuda
Sheryl P. Gardner
David G. and Elisabeth Gelzer
Albert Giang
John Gibson
Ayesha E. Gill
Nancy Gilliam
Mimi Gilpin
Ellen R. Goldman
Fred and Naomi Goldstein
Richard A. and Jill Gollub
George M. Goodburn
Robert E. Goodrich
Debbie Gordon
Bernard H. Gordon
Michael Gorman
Margaret R. Gottlieb
Spencer B. Graves and
Betsy Wolf-Graves
Corwin Greenberg and
Parvati Grais
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CCR Donors
Lee Greer
William and Sharon Gross
Ruthe and Arnold Grubin
Albert and Virginia Hale
H. K. Hall, Jr.
Michael A. Hardy
Leora T. Harris
Keith Hefner and Diana Autin
Horace Heitman
Louis R. Hellwig
Christopher L. Henley
David G. Hermann
Michael and M. E. Herwood
John and Rachel Heuman
Lisa M. Hinely
David K. and Judith A.
Hoffman
Carole R. Horowitz and
Richard L. Last
Katherine Houlihan
Kevin M. Hunt and
Margaret Downing
Kristine A. Huskey
Stanley T. Hutter
Joel and Helen Isaacson
William and Harriet Isecke
Maria L. Jacquard
Roman Jamieson
Marie I. Jordon and
Joseph P. Lyons
Ruth G. Kahn
Alfred E. and Mary S. Kahn
Will Kail
Herschel and Margrit Kaminsky
Anne Kastor
Joanna B. Katz
Margaret Kelly
Peter and Donna Kirchheimer
Bernard C. and
Tilman L. Kirchhoff
Sarah Roberts and
Lawrence Koplik
Diane Palladino and Ellen Koteen
Kanan Krishnan
Jane Kristof
Cathryn H. Kurtagh
Katherine and Margareta
La Rocco
Betty B. Lanham
Phyllis Lanham
David J. Lansner
Ernest T. Larson
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Annette Leckart
Barbara D. Leckie
Susan L. Lee
Edward A. and Mary Lefrak
Martin and Gita Lefstein
William J. and Ellen S. Leibold
Albert and Lulu Levy
Rosalind Lichter
Evelyn C. Lundstrom
Susan Luraschi
Sophie P. Lutzker
Lorraine Lyman
John R. MacArthur and
Renee Khatami
Joan and Wally MacDonald
A. Kent and Kathleen MacDougall
Jeanette and Daniel Macero
Wendy Macklin
Deepak Malhotra
Margaret A. Malloy
Susan B. Manning
Stephen E. Marston
Clara and Bernard Maslow
Anna Marie Mattson
Alan Maximuk
Delbert McCombs
Gary E. McDole
William F. and Nancy McLoughlin
Lynn McWhood
Joseph R. Miller
Bruce and Jane O. Miller
Andrew C. and Helen S. Mills
Arthur R. and Lynn Mink
Thomas C. Mitchell
David B. Mitchell
Lisa A. Mitchell
Charles Moore
Cornelius G. Moore
Madelyn F. Morales
Gilbert E. Morris
Joseph Morton
Denis Mosgofian and
Lori Liederman
Peter and Gail Mott
Kathryn L. Mulvey
Dan M. Myers
John S. Nichols
William K. Nisbet
Jay M. and Marie B. Novello
Robert and Frances Nye
Joyce K. OQuinn and
Steven Selby
CCR Donors
Helen M. Ortmann
Norman Oslik and
Madeleine Golde
Sean L. Patrick
Lowell C. Paul
Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton
& Garrison LLP
Robert and Ruth Peck
Creighton Peet
Robert J. and Suzanne D. Petrucci
Ed and Pauline Petry
Lynette B. Phillips
Anthony and Lizbeth H. Piel
Howardena D. Pindell
Charles R. Piper, Jr.
Barbara B. Polk
Evelyn G. Polk
John A. Pollack
James Porter, Jr.
Joan Posner
Cathy J. Potter
Brian Pridham
Bennett M. Pudlin and
Margaret A. Judd
Robert J. Quartell
Susan G. Radner
M. Carmen Ramirez
Deborah Rand
Paul F. Randel
Joanna M. Rankin and
Mary Fillmore
Andrew S. Rasmussen
Kenneth C. Regal and
Judith A. Ruszkowski
Robert A. and Mary J. Resnik
Marsha L. Respess
Valerie L. Reuther and
Linda D. Bartlett
Julie Rivchin
Anne E. Rodman
Harriet Rosenfeld
Anton B. Rosenthal
Frank Rosin
Karen Rothman
Dwight N. and Robin Rousu
Marcie A. Rubel
Dean Graham Ruby
Jane P. Rundell
Laura and John Saade
Bert Sacks
Nancy and Stefan Sage
Louis R. Salazar

Cathy Albisa spent her childhood in Miami during the 1970s, where a cadre of young
idealistic teachers in the public school system provided a reprieve from her conservative neighborhood.
In this city of racial and ethnic de facto segregation, and growing economic inequality, she
watched images of race riots twenty minutes from her home, on-going abuse of Haitian refugees and
other serious human rights violations. These experiences inspired her to make a career of fighting for
social justice. Through one of her most important mentors, fellow CCR Board member Rhonda Copelon,
Cathy first became involved with the Center, in the mid-1990s, as co-counsel on one of the Center’s
many Alien Tort Claims Act cases.
In 2004, Cathy co-founded the National Economic and Social Rights Initiative, an organization that
works with the social justice community to effectively use human rights standards in U.S. advocacy
efforts, and joined the Board of CCR in 2006.
Joseph Salerno
Sigrid Salo
Franz and Phoebe J. Samelson
Marc Sapir
Irving Saraf
Charles J. Scardino and
Mary Lynn K. Corwin
Martin Schoenhals
Manuel and Bonnie Schonhorn
Jeffrey Scuba
Rupa Shah
Amy Shipman
Mary and Henry Shoiket
Brenna L. Silberstein
Victor Skorapa, Jr.
William and Ursula Slavick
Marc A. Snyder
Stanley Sorscher and Judith M. Arms
John D. Spence and W. Katherine Yih
Sandra M. Squire Fluck
Robert and Elaine Stein
Henry and Pamela Steiner
John A. Stevenson
Richard and Judith Stillinger
Bert Stover and Teresa Holder
Susan M. Strasser
Christopher Strawn
Bertram and Lynne Y. Strieb
Myles Sussman
Daniel B. Szyld
Ilene Tannenbaum and David Goren
Billy G. Taylor
Anne Teicher and Sy Rutkin
Jonathan Teller-Elsberg
C. G. Thomas and E. J. Cameron
Susan V. Tipograph
Joseph and Minette Tolciss
Howard and Nina Tolley
Betsy Towle Ordl
Michael H. Traison
Elizabeth Tuccillo
Bernard Tuchman
William and Selma Tucker
Connie W. Tyler
Christine A. Vassallo
Reed L. and Jennifer J. Vickerman
Joachim Vosgerau
Mary K. Voss
CCR Spotlight
“I’m committed to the Center for Constitutional Rights because of its deep progressive
vision and the strong conscious ties to social movements. I’m also drawn to CCR
because of its creativity and ability to turn even legal losses into movement victories.
I’m particularly proud that together we have created new areas of law.”
John K. Wade
Ruth Warshauer
Janet B. Warzyn
John Weeks
Marvin J. Weinberger
Maurice and Gloria Weisberg
Leland and June Welsh
Lawrence Weschler
David A. White
Wendy W. Williams
James Williamson
Patricia Winer
Karen Winkler
Carol A. Wood
Melvyn Wright
Sarah R. Wunsch
Rachel Wysoker
Lewis Yelin
Marvin J. Yust
Michael A. Zagone
Bart Ziegler
Lore A. Zutraun
This list includes gifts over $100 made between July 1, 2006 and June 30, 2007. Gifts of $100 and under are greatly appreciated and go a
long way toward enabling CCR to continue its work. Unfortunately, because of the large number of these gifts space does not allow us to
print an exhaustive list of donors. All gifts are recognized in our on-line version of this report which is at www.ccr-ny.org.
If you made a gift during this period and your name is not on this list, or if there is a problem with your listing, please contact us so we may
correct our files and acknowledge you in our next newsletter. Frequently, stock gifts are not traceable to the donor and we often do not know
whom to acknowledge for these gifts. To remedy this situation for future gifts, please let us know to expect the stock transfer and we will be
sure to credit it to the correct donor and note it in the donor list.
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CCR Speaks Out
In addition to organizing and hosting events, CCR is regularly called upon to provide speakers and expertise for a range of
events. CCR staff participated in numerous international advocacy activities, including meeting with European representatives
in London and Geneva, and presenting arguments on behalf of detainees before the Inter-American Commission on
Human Rights. Some highlights from this year include:
• Andrea Costello: testified at the Tri-Level Joint Legislative
Task Force Representing the New York City Council,
New York State Legislature and the U.S. Congress to
discuss the NYPD’s failure to comply with the settlement
in CCR’s landmark Street Crimes Unit case. She presented
recommendations on police accountability in the wake of
the 2006 shootings of Sean Bell, Joseph Guzman and Trent
Benefield in Southeast Queens by undercover New York
City police officers.
• Annette Dickerson: at the National Network for
Grantmakers conference in Chicago on U.S. practices
of extraordinary rendition and torture.
• Wells Dixon: Oregon Law Institute’s CLE course, “From
Guantánamo to Gresham: Permissible and Impermissible
Representation in High Profile Cases and Everyday Life”
on his representation of Guantánamo detainees.
• Katherine Gallagher: at the Hague Joint Conference
on Contemporary Issues of International Law on judicial
review of U.S. “anti-terror” policies and practices, including
extraordinary rendition, and the extent to which U.S.
courts invoke or reject international.
• Bill Goodman: at the Congressional Black Caucus’
Annual Legislative Conference about “The New COIN-
TELPRO;” and at West Virginia State University on “The
People, the Constitution, and the Bush Administration.”
• Jennie Green: on “Confronting Gender-Based Violence in
Iraq” at the release of MADRE’s 2007 report Promising
Democracy, Imposing Theocracy: Gender-Based Violence
in the U.S. War on Iraq.
• Gitanjali Gutierrez: community forum and fundraiser for
the San Francisco 8, who are charged with conspiracy due
to evidence based on statements which resulted from police
torture of Black activists in the 1970s; at a national teachin
at Seton Hall Law School and videocast to over 200
colleges and universities on the subject of “Guantánamo:
How do we respond?”; and at “Whitewashing the Panthers:
Can the Government Prosecute Black History?” connecting
the torture tactics used against the Black Panthers with
those used at Guantánamo and Abu Ghraib.
• Shayana Kadidal: testified at the New York City Council,
Committee on Fire and Criminal Justice Services; spoke on
a panel entitled: “Against Terrorism – For Human Rights”
at the UN Palais des Nations in Geneva, Switzerland;
and on a panel before UN Special Rapporteur on Human
Rights of Migrants at Cooper Union in New York City on
post-9/11 legal standards affecting immigrants.
• Rachel Meeropol: at the International Day of Solidarity
with Green Scare Indictees in support of Daniel McGowan,
who was arrested in 2005 in the FBI’s “Operation Backfire,”
a multi-state sweep targeting alleged Earth Liberation
and Animal Liberation Front activists on charges which
could lead to sentences of life in prison.
• Michael Ratner: American University of Paris about
CCR’s work and appeared with Lynne Stewart on the
“Fighting Back Tour” throughout Northern California
covering CCR’s work fighting the use of torture in
Guantánamo and the “war on terror”.
• Michael Ratner and Gitanjali Gutierrez: press conference
and rally outside the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington,
DC, marking the fifth anniversary of the first twenty
prisoners being sent to Guantánamo Bay.
• Claire Tixeire: 2007 Arizona State Bar conference on
CCR’s petition to the German Prosecutor regarding the
culpability of U.S. officials in Abu Ghraib torture.
• Vincent Warren, Michael Ratner, Maria LaHood,
Gitanjali Gutierrez and Annette Dickerson: appeared
with other leading attorneys and experts in New York City
to discuss detention and the so-called “war on terror” at
“From Pinochet to Rumsfeld,” an event hosted by CCR and
focusing on CCR’s work in holding U.S. officials accountable
for torture.
• Vincent Warren: traveled to D.C. as part of a national day
of political action by the legal community dedicated to
the restoration of habeas corpus, which included dozens
of visits to congressional offices as well as Internet-based
campaigns, campus-based activities, and educational
events.

Board of Directors and Staff July 1 2006 – June 30 2007
Robert Boehm (through 12/06), Chairperson
Catherine Albisa
Karima Bennoune
Ann Cammett
Marilyn Clement
David Cole
Rhonda Copelon
Michelle DePass
Gregory H. Finger, Treasurer
Charles Hey-Maestre, Secretary
Derrick A. Humphries
Abdeen Jabara
Directors
Vincent Warren, Executive Director
Rosalba Messina, Interim Executive Director (2/06 - 8/06)*
Kevi Brannelly, Development Director
Carolyn Chambers, Associate Executive Director
Annette Warren Dickerson, Director of Education and Outreach
William Goodman, Legal Director (through 4/07)
Legal Department
Jessica Baen, Legal Worker
Andrea Costello, Staff Attorney
Claire Dailey, Legal Worker
J. Wells Dixon, Staff Attorney
Kamau Franklin, Racial Justice Fellow
Katherine Gallagher, Staff Attorney
Jennifer Green, Senior Staff Attorney
Gitanjali Gutierrez, Staff Attorney
Susan Hu, Legal Worker
Shayana Kadidal, Senior Managing Attorney
Marc Krupanski, Legal Worker
Maria LaHood, Senior Staff Attorney
Emi MacLean, Staff Attorney
Rachel Meeropol, Staff Attorney
Barbara Olshansky, Deputy Legal Director (through 12/06)
Ellen Range, Legal Worker*
Nandini Rao, Asst. to Legal Director*
Matthew Strugar, Attorney*
Claire Tixeire, Legal Research Associate
Maureen Tracey-Mooney, Asst. to Legal Director (through 3/07)
Board of Directors
Staff
Wilhelm Joseph, Jr.
Judy Lerner
Eric L. Lewis
Robin Lloyd
Jules Lobel, Vice President
Michael Ratner, President
Alex Rosenberg, Vice President
Franklin Siegel
Michael Smith
Richard A. Soble
Peter Weiss, Vice President
Ellen Yaroshefsky
Education & Outreach Department
Dana Kaplan, OSI Fellow
C. Lynne Kates, Organizer
Lauren Melodia, E&O Associate
Joshua Rahtz, Intern*
Marion Rodriguez, Organizer (through 12/06)
Development Department
Bani Duggal, Intern
Kevin Gay, Database Administrator
Emily Harting, Foundations Relations Officer
Jeremy Rye, Development Associate
Sue Lee Troutman, Major Gifts Officer (through 11/06)
Communications Department
Owen Henkel, Multimedia and Web Communication Manager
Ari Melber, writer (through 8/06)*
Jen Nessel, Communications Coordinator
Sean Sullivan, Communications Associate (through 7/06)
Esther Wang, Communications Assistant
Administrative Staff
Orlando Gudino, Network Administrator
Jose Monzon, Administrative Assistant
Jeffrey Weinrich, Finance Manager
Alberto White, Office Manager
* Temporary Staff
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In Memoriam
Remembering Bob Boehm
Bob Boehm was a sustaining force for CCR. He was a sweet and caring man
who was generous to a fault and who helped shape and support CCR for almost
four decades. Not only did he and his adored wife, Fran, contribute significant
sums to CCR but, more than once, but they helped countless other progressive
organizations to get started or to survive in lean times. “A grant from Boehm”
was often an imprimatur for others to jump in. Their financial contributions
were matched by the ideas they offered to their grantees, but never as a condition,
never as a way of promoting themselves.
Bob Believed—with a capital B. He believed in progress (how old-fashioned!);
in the power of the word over the sword; in the ultimate triumph of the people
over the establishment. Hence Bob’s many letters to the editor, of which he
was justly proud when they were published. Nowhere was Bob prouder of the
Center than in its early work in the South supporting civil rights movements or
when CCR decided to take up the cause of those being held in Guantánamo at a
time when they were vilified and abandoned by all others.
Many organizations felt the imprint of their loyalty and their generosity, but none more than CCR, whose board Bob chaired for many
years and about which Bob was truly passionate. CCR’s achievements will forever be linked with his name.
We lost Fran last year and Bob this year. They will be greatly missed. But it is a comfort to know they lived the good life, one in which
they believed – not naively, but from unshakable conviction – a life they believed every human being is entitled to and did so much to
make that a reality for others.
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The following is a list of CCR supporters who either passed away this year or who honored
CCR with a bequest. It is always sad to lose a family member, but fortunately these people’s
ideals will live on in the work they supported at CCR.
Joan Antonucci
Lois Baker
Vita Barsky
Benjamin Berg
Hank Corwin
Geraldine Dimondstein
Frank Durkan
Dorothy Epstein
Ronald Force
Richard Friedman
Del Greenfield
Louis Greenfield
Sonya H. Guidry
George Harrison
Seymour Krauth
Janet Loeb
G. Ross McKee, Jr.
Richardson B. Okie
Robert E. Ross
Robert Schwartz
Bernard Stern
Sol L. Warren
Paula Weiss
Josephine A. Willard
Theodore Williams
Sam Zaslavsky
Howard Zucker

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